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Why I like Common Lisp
In a recent email exchange discussion, Charlotte Herzeel gave a summary of Common Lisp that I believe is worth repeating publicly. With her ...
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Kotlin, the Swift of Android
Well, not quite but let's start from the beginning.
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Go’s runtime C to Go rewrite, by the numbers
The start of September brings a close to the Go 1.4 merge window . From now until the release in December, only bug fixes and tweaks will be accepted.
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Say hello to x64 Assembly, part 1
Introduction There are many developers between us. We write a tons of code every day. Sometime, it is even not a bad code :) Every of us ...
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Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C
What implications exist around linking friendly-c code with machiavellian-c? I.e. put the performance critical kernels in there own module and work realy hard to make it correct.
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C++11 FQA anyone?
isocpp.org announced "the C++ FAQ" to which reportedly Bjarne Stroustrup and Marshall Cline will link to help boost its search rank. Good stuff; also, given that the language is >30 years old – it's about time.
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Dylan: the harsh realities of the market
So, this is a little case study. I did everything for Dylan. And when I say everything, I mean everything . Here's my resumé: I got e...
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Revenge of the Types
Some notes about what appears to be current trend of programming languages and my thoughts about it.
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OCaml on iOS 7 Released
Pansophical reader, with your bafflingly good mobile OCaml project, I’m ready at last to release an OCaml compiler for iOS 7. It works for all my projects, and I hope it works for yours.
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Typographic Programming Language
Allow me to present a simple thought experiment. Suppose we didn’t need to store our code as ASCII text on disk. Could we change the way we write – and more importantly read – symbolic code? Let’s assume we have a magic code editor which can read, edit, and write anything we can imagine. Furthermore, assume we have a…
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Why Racket? Why Lisp?
Butterick’s Practical Typography
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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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Painting in Clojure
Learning Clojure by building a digital Jackson Pollock. This article and the source code backing it can be found on GitHub . Below is an example of what we will be building, running the code found in this page.
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Irken Language – A Scheme with parametric polymorphism
Irken is a simplified, statically-typed dialect of Scheme . It uses an ML-like type system supporting parametric polymorphism (i.e., "let polymorphism") and algebraic datatypes . With type inference and a pattern-matching syntax, it could be considered ML with a lisp/scheme syntax .
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What is type safety?
Type safety is the property of a programming language, ensuring its programs are well defined and creating a foundation for reasoning.
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An underrated feature in Python 3
Short praise about exception handling in Python 3 — Note There's a nice video version of this article. Courtesy of Webucator (they do Python training). One of my pet peeves in Python is about...
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Letter to a Young Haskell Enthusiast
*The following letter is not about what "old hands" know and newcomers do not. Instead, it is about lessons that we all need to learn more than once, and remind ourselves of. It is about tendencies that are common, and understandable, and c
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Parsing PHP in Go
An elegant open source and mobile first theme for hugo made by @mdo . Originally made for Jekyll.
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How recursion got into programming: a comedy of errors
By now it is difficult to imagine that once there was a time when the utility, and even the possibility, of recursion in programming was in doubt. Yet that was true of the programming community aro…
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I Don't Know Swift
I know a thing or two about Objective-C. It’s not bragging. If you’re reading my blog, there’s a decent chance that I know more about Objective-C …
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A Lisper's first impression of Julia
I have recently looked at Julia , a new programming language developed at MIT that promises to be a dynamic programming language that is sui...
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