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Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 68 posts.
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My OTP 21 Highlights
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Type inference
Type inference is a major feature of several programming languages, most notably languages from the ML family like Haskell. In this post I want to provide a brief overview of type inference, along with a simple Python implementation for a toy ML-like language.
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Go 2017 Survey Results
What we learned from the December 2017 Go User Survey.
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Dart 2.0 is now available
Notable changes and additions to the Dart programming language.
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In Praise of APL: A Language for Lyrical Programming (1977)
In Praise of APL: A Language for Lyrical Programming Professor Alan J. Perlis Yale University
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Sum Types Are Coming (2015)
Just as all mainstream languages now have lambda functions, I predict sum types are the next construct to spread outward from the typed functional programming community to the mainstream. Sum types are very useful, and after living with them in Haskell for a while, I miss them deeply when using languages without them…
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JEP 325: Switch Expressions
Extend the switch statement so that it can be used as either a statement or an expression, and that both forms can use either a "traditional" or "simplified" scoping and control flow behavior. These changes will simplify everyday coding, and also prepare the way for the use of pattern matching (JEP 305) in switch …