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Go and Assembly
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,709 posts.
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On calculating Fibonacci numbers in C
A few months ago Evan Miller wrote an essay called The Mathematical Hacker . While an interesting post he does make a mistake when he gives ...
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It is ridiculously easy to refactor Go
I discovered a profound outcome of Go's support for static type checking and duck typing: It is ridiculously easy to refactor Go.
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When Haskell Is Not faster than C
This article is in response to an earlier one comparing Haskell and C, which made the claim that Haskell beats out C when it comes to speed. On a Hacker News thread I made the bold claim that the C code is rife with problems and that it is tempting to fix it.
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C and C++ Aren't Future Proof
My hope would be option 1 for application code (as opposed to the “systems code” that you have there): fewer and fewer people use these languages to write application code. Moreover, I think that’s probably happening to some extent.
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Why free monads matter
A tour of free monads and their motivating use cases
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Why learning Haskell makes you a better programmer
Lessons learning Haskell It's often claimed that learning Haskell will make you a better programmer in other languages. I like the idea ...
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Why C++ Is Not "Back"
There are plenty of excellent developers I know today that still use C++ and teach others how to use it and there is nothing at all wrong with that. So what is the problem then? Why is C++ not "back"?
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Graham’s Guide to Learning Scala
From The Archives: This article is one of the all-time most popular posts from my previous blog Graham Hacking Scala. I thought it worth updating and re-printing it here. It’s a pretty widely-accepted view that, as a programmer, learning new … Continue reading →
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A Few New Things Coming To JavaScript
I believe the day-to-day practice of writing JavaScript is going to change dramatically for the better when ECMAScript.next arrives. The coming year is going...
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Refining Ruby
What does the following code do? If you answered
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Brian Harvey: Why SICP matters
In 2011, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of MIT, the Boston Globe made a list of the most important innovations developed there. They asked me to explain the importance of SICP, and this is what I sent them:
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The Nature of Lisp
An article about Lisp programming language.
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Writing A Lisp Interpreter In Haskell
An article describing the experience of writing a Lisp interpreter in Haskell.
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