People appreciate the easy stuff
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I'm reminded of this every time I post something basic, like implementing
IListin C# here versus something complicated like a regex engine or parser generator. Guess which article gets all the attention? It's understandable, as everyone needs container support in C# but most people don't need another regex lib. Still, it seems the stuff I like to write, and the stuff people like to read are pretty different. ;POne day I'll figure out how to change this sig permanently
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I'm reminded of this every time I post something basic, like implementing
IListin C# here versus something complicated like a regex engine or parser generator. Guess which article gets all the attention? It's understandable, as everyone needs container support in C# but most people don't need another regex lib. Still, it seems the stuff I like to write, and the stuff people like to read are pretty different. ;POne day I'll figure out how to change this sig permanently
Spot on
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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I'm reminded of this every time I post something basic, like implementing
IListin C# here versus something complicated like a regex engine or parser generator. Guess which article gets all the attention? It's understandable, as everyone needs container support in C# but most people don't need another regex lib. Still, it seems the stuff I like to write, and the stuff people like to read are pretty different. ;POne day I'll figure out how to change this sig permanently
I'm still bitter from that time when my article about IL and Expression Trees[^] (Feb 2011 :laugh:), which I still consider my magnum opus, didn't make article of the month because it lost to some simplistic explanation of the chewed out design patterns or some such (me, envious? no way!) ;p That's democracy for you :rolleyes:
Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly
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I'm still bitter from that time when my article about IL and Expression Trees[^] (Feb 2011 :laugh:), which I still consider my magnum opus, didn't make article of the month because it lost to some simplistic explanation of the chewed out design patterns or some such (me, envious? no way!) ;p That's democracy for you :rolleyes:
Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” ― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe He wasn't wrong, and it's a larger issue than politics. :laugh:
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I'm still bitter from that time when my article about IL and Expression Trees[^] (Feb 2011 :laugh:), which I still consider my magnum opus, didn't make article of the month because it lost to some simplistic explanation of the chewed out design patterns or some such (me, envious? no way!) ;p That's democracy for you :rolleyes:
Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly
I visited it and gave you an upvote to go with your other 77 :mad: my magnum opus (PCK) got crap here. But it does have 20 stars on github :-D Still, my most popular articles are dwarfed by yours in terms of popularity. Geez
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I'm reminded of this every time I post something basic, like implementing
IListin C# here versus something complicated like a regex engine or parser generator. Guess which article gets all the attention? It's understandable, as everyone needs container support in C# but most people don't need another regex lib. Still, it seems the stuff I like to write, and the stuff people like to read are pretty different. ;POne day I'll figure out how to change this sig permanently
It is a usual case... people love those kind of "XXX for beginners" and there is a lot of people with a lot of followers that just bring crappy articles to heaven... But that's the power of the masses
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I'm reminded of this every time I post something basic, like implementing
IListin C# here versus something complicated like a regex engine or parser generator. Guess which article gets all the attention? It's understandable, as everyone needs container support in C# but most people don't need another regex lib. Still, it seems the stuff I like to write, and the stuff people like to read are pretty different. ;POne day I'll figure out how to change this sig permanently
Guilty, I would never read an article on regex (or xml) as they are not tools I would use unless forced to. Lists on the other hand I consider to be a major part of my toolbox. I think it comes down to relevance.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Guilty, I would never read an article on regex (or xml) as they are not tools I would use unless forced to. Lists on the other hand I consider to be a major part of my toolbox. I think it comes down to relevance.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
That's fair. However, if you ever have to write a parser, you'll need a tokenizer, and those run on finite state machines. You don't *need* to use regex to create them (in fact, my parser construction kit, PCK lets you define them using an EBNF variant if you want) but one way or another you need a declarative way to describe a state machine that can be used for pattern matching if you're going to be tokenizing. Interestingly enough, state machines like this don't have to be limited to text. You could in theory use them to do pattern matching over collections of objects for example.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
