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Super Mario 64 was built with a system written in Lisp
Franz is a leading vendor of Graph Search Technology (AllegroGraph and Gruff) and Common Lisp Software Development Tools (Allegro CL and AllegroCache)
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,929 posts.
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Compilers for Free
I’m fascinated by programming, and by metaprogramming in particular. When Ruby programmers talk about metaprogramming they usually mean programs that write programs , because Ruby has various features — like BasicObject#instance_eval , Module#define_method and BasicObject#method_missing — which make it possible to…
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Global Interpreter Lock, or how to kill it
People that listened to my (Armin Rigo) lightning talk at EuroPython know that suddenly, we have a plan to remove the Global Interpreter Loc...
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Based: Simple linear attention language models
BASED is a linear attention architecture that decodes without a KV-cache, delivering a 24x throughput improvement over Transformers with FlashAttention-2.
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What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior #3/3
In Part 1 of the series, we took a look at undefined behavior in C and showed some cases where it allows C to be more performant than "safe" languages.
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Clang++ Builds Boost
Boost is a collection of open-source, peer-reviewed C++ libraries that's well-known for having many good utility components for C++ programmers. It's also well-known for using bleeding-edge C++ techniques, such as extensive template and preprocessor metaprogramming, that have pushed many C++ compilers beyond their…
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Roto: A Compiled Scripting Language for Rust
By Terts Diepraam We are working on an embedded scripting language for Rust. This language, called Roto, aims to be a simple yet fast and reliable scripting language for Rust applications. The need for Roto comes from Rotonda, our BGP engine written in Rust. Mature BGP applications usually feature some
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Nim 2.2.6
The Nim Team is happy to announce version 2.2.6, the third patch release for our stable release, Nim 2.2.
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Racket 8.1
_posted by John Clements_ Racket version 8.1 is now available from https://racket-lang.org/. DrRacket tabs can be dragged, and have new close buttons. Racket CS supports cross-compilation using `raco exe`. Racket CS supports Android on 32-...
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Deep learning to translate between programming languages
TransCoder is the first self-supervised neural transcompiler system for migrating code between programming languages. It can translate code from Python to C++, for example, and it outperforms rule-based translation programs.
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A better R programming experience thanks to Tree-sitter
Modern tooling for parsing, searching, formatting, editing R code, just like for other programming languages.
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Whistled Turkish
May 31, 2019 @ 6:29 am · Filed by Mark Liberman under Language and culture , Phonetics and phonology
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Getting Past “Ampersand-Driven Development” in Rust
A little mental model for ownership and borrowing
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We chose OCaml to write Stategraph
OCaml's type system catches state corruption at compile time. Type-safe SQL, automatic serialization, and immutability by default prevent entire categories of bugs.
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We found a bug in the hyper HTTP library
By rearchitecting the Images binding, we accidentally uncovered a bug that existed in the open-source hyper library across multiple major versions.
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Announcing TypeScript 3.1
Today we're announcing the release of TypeScript 3.1!If you haven't heard of TypeScript, it's a language that builds on top of modern JavaScript and adds
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Announcing .NET Core 1.1
Updated (2017): See .NET Core Releases to learn about newer releases. We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.1 RTM, the first “Current” release. You can start creating .NET Core 1.1 apps, today, in Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2017 RC, Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio for the Mac. We used the…
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Sealed Rust Update
Part 2 - The Plan
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Designing a Programming Language for the Desert
A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.
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It's Coming: The Great Swift API Transformation
Cocoa, the Swift standard library, maybe even your own types and methods—it’s all about to change, and you can help determine how.
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Clojure for the Brave and True – Functional Programming
So far, you’ve focused on becoming famil iar with the tools that Clojure provides: immutable data structures, functions, abstractions, and so on. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to think about your programming tasks in a way that makes the best use of those tools. You’ll begin integrating your experience into a new…
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Python 3's F-Strings: An Improved String Formatting Syntax
Python f-strings give you a readable, concise way to interpolate and format strings, and they beat .format() and the % operator on speed.
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Three ways to think about Go channels
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.