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I'm fascinated by the myth of the Lisp genius, the eccentric programmer who accomplishes super-human feats writing Lisp. I'm not saying that such geniuses don't exist; they do. Here I'm using "myth" in the sense of a story with archetypical characters that fuels the imagination. I'm thinking myth in the sense of…
How the 46 kana letters map onto 80 Unicode code points and how katakana and hiragana compare.
Some things about the R programming language that programmers coming from other languages are likely to trip over.
Things a programmer coming from another language needs to know about R, especially those things that might be most surprising
Monads and macros have an almost gnostic mystique about them. Why is that? Why does hardly anyone use both?
This morning Miroslav Bajtoš asked "Why do C++ folks make things so complicated?" in response to my article on regular expressions in C++. Other people asked similar questions yesterday. My response has two parts: Why I believe C++ libraries are often complicated. Why I don't think it has to be that way. Why would…