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Clojure on the Desktop
With cljfx and Java 14 it’s finally here
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What If C++ Abandoned Backward Compatibility?
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to
How many of you have listened, read or taken part in a discussion about programming languages that goes like the following: Person A: "Pro...
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Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
The other day I read 20 most significant programming languages in history, a “preposterous table I just made up.” He certainly got preposterous right: he lists Go as “most significant” but not ALGOL, Smalltalk, or ML. He also leaves off Pascal because it’s “mostly dead”. Preposterous! That defeats the whole point of…
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Jane Street and the OCaml Compiler (2018) [video]
Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider with a unique focus on technology and collaborative problem solving.
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Smalltalk-87
In late 1986 and early 1987 an ad hoc group of Smalltalk implementors got together to see if they could agree on a design for the next major version of Smalltalk, after Smalltalk-80. The intent was that what they agreed upon would feed into an IEEE standardization process. That process never got
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An in-depth look at OCaml’s new “best-fit” garbage collector strategy
An in-depth Look at OCaml’s new "Best-fit" Garbage Collector Strategy The Garbage Collector probably is OCaml’s greatest unsung hero. Its pragmatic approach allows us to allocate without much fear of efficiency loss. In a way, the fact that most OCaml hackers know little about it is a good sign:...
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Two Years with Rust
It’s been just over two years since I started learning Rust. Since then, I’ve used it heavily at my day job, including work in the Firecracker code base, and a number of other projects. Rust is a great fit for the systems-level work I’ve been doing over the last few years: often performance- and density-sensitive…
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How to write documentation for a Rust crate
Blog of Guillaume Gomez (Guide on how to write documentation for a Rust crate)
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Crafting Interpreters: Superclasses
You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
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The chronic suffering of the VB.NET community
I’d originally planned to write on this particular topic in response to increasing outreach to me personally, through my blog and other places, unsolicited, and independently from multiple communit…
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The 2,500 year old history of why Python’s all([]) returns True
How a Python function relates to a two thousand year old debate in philosophy
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Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big (1991)
Lisp has done quite well over the last ten years: becoming nearly standardized, forming the basis of a commercial sector, achieving excellent performance, having good environments, able to deliver applications. Yet the Lisp community has failed to do as well as it could have. In this paper I look at the successes, the…
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Lisp Comes of Age (1980)
A report on the 1980 LISP conference at Stanford University, held the week after the AAAI Artificial Intelligence Conference. Written for Byte.
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Yes, I am still learning Rust
Recently, I got yet another nice email from a “talent sourcing specialist” asking me if I’d like to work for their company. This one stood out from the usual blockchain recruiting spam by actually looking at this blog. And they told me their expectations were lowered by the front matter stating that I’m currently…
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K Language (2011)
Forthcoming events See all events... News Administration Files Buyer Profile Jobs Tenure Procedures Attestation Documents To the Prize page Please donate BIC: UNCRBGSF IBAN: BG32UNCR76303100117336 Address: Institute of Mathematics and
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I Don't Use Classes
Instead of classes, I prefer modules that expose groups of functions that accept state and other dependencies.
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Defunctionalisation: An underappreciated tool for writing good software
Explore defunctionalisation as a tool for writing efficient software with insights from our own Patrick Stevens. See its benefits in code optimisation.
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REBOL Oneliners
One-liners are like Haiku poetry. Not always practical, not always readable, they are fun to write. As with any art, some are better than others, but from time-to-time, a true gem pops up.
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Stages of denial in encountering K
It is a lazy Tuesday afternoon. Perhaps you were idly browsing your favorite news aggregator, or visiting The Orange Website to wade through murky startup groupthink in search of interesting links.
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Why not to use (f)lex, yacc or bison
flex and bison still work, but modern parser generators beat them on Unicode, grammar format, keeping code out of the grammar, and documentation. A point-by-point comparison.
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Is Go Duck-Typed?
In programming languages, duck typing can be approximated as the application of the duck test to objects. Here we explore if go is duck typed.
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A new Go API for Protocol Buffers
Announcing a major revision of the Go API for protocol buffers.
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Rust Ownership Rules
A gentle and beginner friendly overview of Rust Ownership Rules