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Personal Notes on Corman Lisp 3.1 Release
Today, as I announced earlier, the Corman Lisp 3.1 has been released after more than a decade-long break. Somehow it happened that I am one of the active mai...
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Comparing Pythagorean triples in C++, D, and Rust
EDIT: As pointed out in the Rust reddit thread, the Rust version can be modified to run faster due to a suble difference between ..=z and ..(z+1). I’ve updated the measurements with rustc0 be…
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FizzBuzz in ten languages
Updates (2024) Since this post was originally written, the FizzBuzz github repository has received 23 additional contributions so the total…
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A little-known C feature: Static array indices in parameter declarations (2013)
Explanation of a little known C feature – and yet another use of the “static” keyword!
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“Modern” C++ Lamentations
“ Standard Ranges ” blog post by Eric Niebler – about C++20 ranges feature – was doing rounds in the game development twitterverse lately, with many expressing something like a “dislike” (mildly said) about the state of modern C++.
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Clojure is Capable
So, given all of that, lets dive into the meat of the article. What are we going to accomplish in Clojure today?
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Sketches of Elixir
Sketches of Elixir : Friends, I am now at least in this respect a rare breed: an Elixir programmer who has never written Ruby. I was never a professional Erlang programmer. I cut my teeth on Python
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Ruby 2.6
Christmas is around the corner, but I couldn’t wait and I have already been trying the new Ruby release! :christmas_tree: :tada: Ruby 2.6, apart from efficie...
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Solving murder with Prolog
In our company we usually have a fun quiz every sunday and this was one of them
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C++20 Ranges
As you may have heard by now, Ranges got merged and will be part of C++20. This is huge news and represents probably the biggest shift the Standard Library has seen since it was first standardized …
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Why you should learn F#
Programming, Coffee and Indie Hacking
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Can functional programming be liberated from the von Neumann paradigm? (2010)
Inspirations & experiments, mainly about denotative/functional programming in Haskell
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Why Use F#?
Why you should consider using F# for your next project
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Making Games in Lisp with Hypergiant and Chicken Scheme
Hypergiant is a library for CHICKEN Scheme that tries to make it easy to make efficient games. 1 The idea behind it is the belief that games should start with a prototype that should take minimal effort, but these should be extensible to be whatever you want the final product to be. So Hypergiant attempts to find the…
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Seemingly Impossible Swift Programs
We will construct Swift programs that should be impossible to implement, yet somehow are not!
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Little Languages
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Better Clojure formatting
A Clojure formatting style good enough to be a default standard
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How I Wrote a Modern C++ Library in Rust
Since version 56, Firefox has had a new character encoding conversion library called encoding_rs. It is written in Rust and replaced the old C++ character encoding conversion library called uconv that dated from early 1999. Initially, all the callers of the character encoding conversion library were C++ code, so the…
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Pointers in C (2010)
This document comes with a companion example program, available as one file or as multiple files (zipped) .
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Erlang/OTP 21's new logger
With OTP-21 came a new logging library in Erlang called logger . It comes as an attempt to offer a built-in alternative to long successful projects such as lager , which have seen years of battle testing and tweaking for performance. I've seen few articles written about the new logger and what it can do, so I've…
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Fortran is still a thing
A short essay about Fortran in the modern world.
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Compiler basics: Lisp to Assembly
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 1. lisp to assembly
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Still in love with Rust
Notes by `dpc`
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D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler
While working on my current project, the constant creep of increasing compilation times was becoming more and more noticeable. Even after throwing my usual tools at the problem, the total time was still over 7 seconds.
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Fibers are the right solution to improve Ruby performance
The majority of performance improvements in modern processors are due to increased core count rather than increased instruction execution frequency. To maximise hardware utilization, applications need to use multiple processes and threads. Servers that process discrete requests are a good candidate for both…