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Common Lisp: The Untold Story
A version of the paper below was published in Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Lisp , edited by Charlotte Herzeel, the conference record of Lisp50 @ OOPSLA’08 (Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 2008). That collection is available through the ACM Digital Library .
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The Python Standard Library - Where Modules Go To Die
If you’ve done Fourier series approximations of functions, you had three reactions to today’s XKCD comic :
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Why Erlang?
The chance that you are reading this blog post on a device with a multicore cpu is increasing on a daily basis which is why everybody is talking about concurrency now. Concurrency for our web applications and API backends means that we’d like our htop to look like this:
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Of parser-fetishists and semi-colons
TL;DR: if you advocate omitting sensible syntax as parsers will fix that for us, you are not a visionary developer. You waste your and our time. And you come across as a semi-colon.
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Brendan Eich: The infernal semicolon
Most of the comments in this semicolons in JS exchange make me sad. The code in question:
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Rust's Object System
On the rust-dev mailing list, someone pointed out another “BitC retrospective” post by Jonathon Shapiro concerning typeclasses . The Rust object system provides interesting solutions to some of the problems he raises. We also manage to combine traditional class-oriented OOP with Haskell’s type classes in a way that…
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PHP Sucks But I Like It
I read a rather interesting post yesterday called PHP: a fractal of bad design. It’s been getting a lot of traffic among the PHP community lately because it’s rather inflammatory. But to be honest, it
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PHP: A fractal of bad design
(This article has been translated into Spanish (PDF, with some additions) by Jorge Amado Soria Ramirez — thanks!) Preface I’m cranky. I complain about a lot of things. There’s a lot in the world of technology I don’t like, and that’s really to be expected—programming is a hilariously young discipline, and none of us
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57 Small Programs that Crash Compilers
I noticed there are no MSVC examples in there — was it not a targeted compiler? If so, I’m curious as to why.
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Haskell as fast as C: working at a high altitude for low level performance
After the last post about high performance, high level programming, Slava Pestov, of Factor fame, wondered whether it was generally true that “if you want good performance you have to write C…
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How a language can be faster than C
a blog post by @azwinkau
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Why You Should Be Excited About Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.0
You may have heard last week how Innokenty Mihailov’s great Enumerable::Lazy feature was accepted into the Ruby 2.0 code base. But you may not have heard about an even more significant change that was merged into Ruby 2.0 in January: a new algorithm for garbage collection called “Bitmap Marking.” The developer behind…
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Python internals: how callables work
[The Python version described in this article is 3.x, more specifically - the 3.3 alpha release of CPython.]
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Go is amazing, period.
I've been messing around with Go for quite some time now and I wanted to share my experiences. When I first looked at Go, I put it aside a...
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Python becomes a platform. Thoughts on the release of clojure-py.
The recent announcement of clojure-py made some noise in the Clojure community, but not, as far as I can tell, in the Python community. For those who haven’t heard of it before, clojure-py is…
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