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Barmar
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I've been in the computer industry since about 1979 (I had a summer programming job after graduating from high school), and I've done a little bit of everything. I've programmed in ancient languages (BASIC, PL/I, COBOL, Lisp) and more recent ones (Perl, PHP, Javascript), with a few random assemblers thrown into the mix. I've been a system programmer, system administrator, tech support engineer, and performance engineer.

I'm currently working as a programmer for Bridge Base Online, the leading online site for playing bridge. I've been learning modern web application development in the process.

P.S. My name is barmar, not barman.

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Why would a language allow zero-size structs?
Jul 1, 2023
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Why do (or don't) languages forbid unreachable code?
Mar 21
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Are there any languages where conditions are not first-class expressions?
Apr 26
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How could a language make the loop-and-a-half less error-prone?
Jun 30, 2023
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Pros and cons of semantically-significant capitalization
Jul 12, 2023
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Why does the C library include fgetpos()/fsetpos() if the same functionality can be achieved with ftell()/fseek()?
Sep 9, 2023
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How do image-based languages deal with transient external references?
Oct 25, 2023
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Earliest implementation of pattern matching as a programming language feature
Nov 7, 2023
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Why would accessing uninitialized memory necessarily be undefined behavior?
Sep 7, 2023
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Distinguishing classes from structures
Jun 30, 2023
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What does "for" attribute do in an HTML <label> tag?
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What command means "do nothing" in a conditional in Bash?
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What's the difference between .so, .la and .a library files?
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MySQL Select Date Equal to Today (having datetime as the data type)
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How can mixed data types (int, float, char, etc) be stored in an array?