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Results from the State of Clojure, Summer 2010 Survey
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,709 posts.
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An argument against call/cc (2012)
Why a programming language should not offer a primitive to capture undelimited continuations (call/cc).
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An Illustrated guide to multi-core parallelism in Clojure
Here are my Clojure Conj slides, From Concurrency to Parallelism: an illustrated guide to multi-core parallelism in Clojure. The version of clojure.par I used isn’t publicly available yet, bu…
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Haskell is beautiful in practice
I’ve been writing a bit of Haskell lately (see my GitHub page ), and it’s an absolutely beautiful experience. And I mean that in every way: The language itself of course, but also the community, the documentation, the package system and the Haskell platform ultimately help make the practice of writing Haskell more…
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Tired of Old Man Python telling you what you can and can't say to your computer?
Code like you speak. Like making computers do your bidding? Enjoy Python features like lambdas? Indent-grouping? List comprehensions, but tired of OLD MAN PYTHON telling YOU how to...
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The Kernel Programming Language
I'm developing a programming language called Kernel. Kernel is a conservative, Scheme-like dialect of Lisp in which everything is a first-class object.
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Joe Marshall's take on Guido Van Rossum's post on tail recursion
A blog about computers, functional languages, Lisp, and Scheme.
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Why Reddit uses Python
During Steve Huffman’s and Alexis Ohanian’s Pycon Keynote , someone asked why Reddit was moved from Lisp to Python . The reason for moving wasn’t too interesting, but why they have stayed is. Steve gave two “huge” reasons Reddit continues to use Python:
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This is the page that made doing OOP in Javascript click for me.
JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language . Some believe that it lacks the property of information hiding because objects cannot have private instance variables and methods. But this is a misunderstanding. JavaScript objects can have private members. Here's how.
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The Most Unusual (and Best) Computer Language Book I've Ever Seen.
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby, from Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby by _why the lucky stiff. CC BY-SA 2.5.
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The empirical evidence that types affect productivity and correctness
There are some pretty strong statements about types floating around out there. The claims range from the oft-repeated phrase that when you get the types to line up, everything just works, to “not relying on type safety is unethical (if you have an SLA)” 1 , " It boils down to cost vs benefit, actual studies, and…
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Steve Yegge: Lisp is not an acceptable Lisp. (2006)
Another enjoyable read. Thanks! One thing, though -- it's about time to update your understandings of Python's object system. Python's culture doesn't insist that traditional (Smalltalkish) OO is the One True Way to re-use code, but that doesn't mean that everything in Python is not an object (because they are, since…
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Threaded Code (1999)
What is threaded code? What is it good for? What are the differences between the various threading techniques? How do I implement threaded code portably? How fast are various threading techniques?
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A year with Python
Almost exactly a year ago I wrote here about giving Python a try as my main programming language. Before that I was mainly writing in Perl, and eying Ruby from time to time as the replacement.
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Don't Learn C the Wrong Way
Update : On Sep. 28, 2015, Zed Shaw wrote a rebuttal to this post. You can find the details here .
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Clojure: It’s About the Libraries
There’s a big ‘ol thread going on down at comp.lang.lisp about Clojure vs. Common Lisp. I’m biased, of course, but I have to say that Clojure and Rich Hickey are holding their own against some of the top c.l.l. flamers.
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Parallelism is not concurrency
In an earlier post I mentioned that one goal of the new introductory curriculum at Carnegie Mellon is to teach parallelism as the general case of computing, rather than an esoteric, specialized sub…
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Writing a compiler in Python using Lex, Yacc and LLVM
I found a good post on how to build your own toy compiler using Flex, Bison and LLVM. I saw one disadvantage right in the beginning: you had to use C++. If I w…
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