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Why Racket? Why Lisp?
Butterick’s Practical Typography
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 78 posts.
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How I Start: Haskell
My name is Chris. I teach Haskell to people that are new to programming and as well as long-time coders. Haskell is a general purpose programming language that is most useful to mere mortals.
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The Python I Would Like To See
What I would imagine an better Python would look like.
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Clasp – A Common Lisp with LLVM back end and interoperation with C++
Hello, everyone! Click here for up to date build instructions Today I am happy to make the first release of the Common Lisp implementation “Clasp”. Clasp uses LLVM as its back-end and generates nat…
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How I Start: Erlang
Erlang releases are a bit like magnets. Everyone who thinks about them shares the same thought: f**king releases, how do they work?
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Great Works in Programming Languages (2004)
In September, 2004, I posted a query to the Types list asking people to name the five most important papers ever written in the area of programming languages. This page collects the responses I received. (A few are missing because I am still tracking down bibliographic information.)
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Functional Programming using JavaScript
There is no clear, widely-accepted definition of Functional Programming. It is a collection of related featues which cohere well into a very useful style of programming.
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An Experimental New Type Inference Scheme for Rust
While on vacation, I’ve been working on an alternate type inference scheme for rustc. (Actually, I got it 99% working on the plane, and have been slowly poking at it ever since.) This scheme simplifies the code of the type inferencer dramatically and (I think) helps to meet our intutions (as I will explain). It is…
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PyPy.js: Now faster than CPython
OK OK, I couldn't resist that title but it probably goes a bit far. Let me try for a little more nuance:
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An alternative Haskell home page
The web site has since been through various iterations and changes, therefore I include some screenshots below for posterity (because my design is much more beautiful than what is now online ;-).
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Why Lisp is a Big Hack and Haskell is Doomed to Succeed (2011)
2013 Update: I was young and stupid when I wrote this. I fear that Haskell is doomed to succeed. — Tony Hoare I ♥ Lisp. I think it's t...
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GitHub Language Trends
A while ago, I wanted to get a little quick feedback on some data I was playing with, but the day was almost over and I wasn’t done working on it yet. I decided to tweet my rough draft of a graph of GitHub language trends anyway, followed later by a slight improvement. Much to my surprise,
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Compiler Design in C
Compiler Design in C Download a copy! My book Compiler Design in C is now, unfortunately, out of print. You can download a complete copy, with the above button (pdf 19.1Mb OCR/Searchable—thanks to Marvin Hernández for adding the OCR). If you don’t want to print it out (the book is 984 pages long), you can…
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An upgrade to attoparsec, Haskell parsing library: more speed, more power
I’m pleased to introduce the third generation of my attoparsec parsing library. With a major change to its internals, it is both faster and more powerful than previous versions, while remaining backwards compatible. Comparing to C Let’s start with a speed comparison between the hand-written C code that powers…
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How Python 3 Should Have Worked (2012)
As a workaday Python developer, it’s hard to shake the feeling that the Python 2 to 3 transition isn’t working. I get occasional requests to make my libraries work in 3 but it’s far from clear how to and when I try to look it up I find all sorts of conflicting advice, none of which sounds very practical.