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The Four Flaws of Haskell
Summary: Last year I made a list of four flaws with Haskell. Most have improved significantly over the last year. No language/compiler ecosy...
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Type Punning Functions in C
C has a reputation for being inflexible. But did you know you can change the argument order of C functions if you don't like them?
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From first principles: Why I bet on Scala.js
Three years ago, I downloaded the nascent Scala.js compiler and tried to use it on a toy project.
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APL Tutorial
Interested in learning about APL? Have you heard of this exciting language with strange characters and incredible brevity? Look no further, here you will find an introduction to the language, and even understanding from a historical perspective.
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The truth about Lisp (2006)
In which the truth about lisp is revealed, and some alternatives are enumerated.
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I Love Go; I Hate Go
I liked Go right away. It was close enough to C and Java to be instantly familiar, the examples and tutorials were straightforward, and I was quickly writing…
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Code behaving differently in C90, C99, C11, C++98, and C++11
There are some subtle differences between the revisions of the C standard that makes it possible to create programs that behaves differentl...
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Functional programming in C (2013)
0.1 Discriminated unions in C 0.2 Nested functions and lambda variables 0.3 Automatic cleanup of local variables 0.4 Data structures 0.5 Wrapping up This post/program (as I’m writing it in literate…
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What Template Haskell gets wrong and Racket gets right
Why are macros in Haskell terrible, but macros in Racket great? There are certainly many small problems with GHC’s Template Haskell support, but I would say that there is one fundamental design point which Racket got right and Haskell got wrong: Template Haskell does not sufficiently distinguish between compile-time…
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Exponential time complexity in the Swift type checker
One of the most annoying problems in Swift is when the compiler gives an 'Expression was too complex to be solved in a reasonable time' error. I look at why this error occurs, how to avoid it and talk about how this should be solved in a future compiler update.
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Destroy All Ifs – A Perspective from Functional Programming
Replace conditionals with lambdas for simpler code that's more powerful
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Composability: From Callbacks to Categories in ES6
Exploring Functional Programming ideas like Monads and Kleisli Category in JavaScript. Starting from an alternative solution to Promises.
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Introducing Verve: minimalistic, static, functional language
An experimental, minimalistic, static, functional language with zero dependencies.
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Why is Python slow
In case you missed it, Marius recently wrote a post on the Pyston blog about our baseline JIT tier. Our baseline JIT sits between our interpreter tier and our LLVM JIT tier, providing better speed…
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How to implement a programming language in JavaScript
This is a tutorial on how to implement a programming language. If you ever wrote an interpreter or a compiler, then there is probably nothing new for you here. But, if you're using regexps to “parse” anything that looks like a programming language, then please read at least the section on parsing . Let's write less…
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Introducing MLFE: ML-Flavoured Erlang
What ML-Flavoured Erlang is a statically typed language with basic parametric polymorphism (generics) for the Erlang VM that I’ve been hacking …
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Advanced programming languages (2009)
Students often ask for a recommendation on what language they should learn next. If you're looking for a job in industry, my reply is to learn whatever is hot right now: C++, Java and C#--and probably Python, Ruby, PHP and Perl too.
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PHP Sucks
I think PHP sucks, but not for the obvious reasons. Today I got into a mild discussion on twitter, sparked by the following tweet: