<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> I enjoyed that book (even though it took me two tries to read it), but I thought _I am a Strange Loop_ was better, honestly.</p>

<p>Found this pasted on a wall in my building. The book that transformed my teenage years is suddenly hot again! The kids are going to be all right after all.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Hadn&#39;t heard of that guy, looked him up and now I&#39;m just angry (and exhausted) that another one of those fascist stains exists on humanity.</p>

<p>Talk #13: &quot;Thinking in Wit&quot; by Dan Gohman (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@sunfish" class="u-url mention">@<span>sunfish</span></a></span>)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Excellent.</p>

<p>Like okay I understand what you are trying to do here is not commit to a particular byte length because you want to support 7-bit bytes, 8-bit bytes, and possibly UTF-16 characters or something, but YOU COULD HAVE *SAID SO* INSTEAD OF MAKING A LOOP OF 3 DEFINITIONS LINKING TO EACH OTHER</p>

<p>FORTRAN 2008 spec 9.1:<br />&quot;A file is composed of either a sequence of file storage units (9.3.5) or a sequence of records… A file composed of file storage<br />13 units is called a stream file.&quot;</p><p>The definition of &quot;file storage units&quot; (9.3.5):<br />&quot;A file storage unit is the basic unit of storage in a stream file or an unformatted record file.&quot;</p><p>The linked definition of &quot;Stream file&quot; (1.3.139)<br />A file composed of a sequence of le storage units (9.1)</p><p>YOU ASSHOLES, THIS DEFINITION IS CIRCULAR!</p>

<p>Incidentally, I am very comfortable usually with reading language specifications, but I got hold of a copy of the FORTRAN 2008 spec and… this is one of the least friendly language specifications I&#39;ve ever seen, when reading it to try to determine how a program should be written.</p><p>(Trivia: When the image on the right says something like &quot;the value must be YES or NO&quot; what they mean is &quot;the value must be &#39;YES&#39; or &#39;NO&#39;.)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Gunther Eaglemen will be crushed</p>