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What is special about Nim?
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Dennis Felsing
We live in Heidelberg, Germany. About once a year we travel to my wife’s hometown of Taiyuan, the capital of the Shanxi province in China, to visit my parents-in-law. Our most recent visit was in spring of this year, for two months. In this post I’ll talk about my experiences of regularly staying in Taiyuan since 2019.
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A Taste of Haskell
In this post I want to highlight a few fun aspects of the Haskell programming language. The purpose is to give you a taste of Haskell so that you will want to learn more of it. Don’t consider this as a tutorial or guide but rather as a starting point, as it is based on a short talk I held at work, which in turn is…
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What makes Nim practical?
In my last post I showed what makes the Nim programming language special. Today, let’s consider Nim from another angle: What makes Nim a practical programming language?
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God writes Haskell
God famously does not play dice with the universe, but he seems to enjoy writing Haskell :
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Make a Lisp in Nim
I spent the last weekend working through the amazing guide for Make a Lisp , writing a Lisp interpreter in Nim. The final result just made it into the repository.
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Introduction to Metaprogramming in Nim
Metaprogramming is the writing of computer programs with the ability to treat programs as their data. It means that a program could be designed to read, generate, analyse and/or transform other programs, and even modify itself while running.