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F*dging up a Racket
Source code can be found at: https://github.com/dyoo/brainfudge . The latest version of this document lives in http://hashcollision.org/brainfudge .
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 3,709 posts.
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In the Shadow of John McCarthy
John McCarthy was a genius of the highest order. Much is known about his contribution to Lisp as its inventor, but he was also the mind behind much of early AI research, the progenitor of much of computer chess, and the initiator of time-sharing. As a Lisp advocate I have many thanks due to John McCarthy and it…
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Fortran is easy to learn
Some may think Fortran is an archaic language, and certainly not one that should be taught, but in any respects modern Fortran is an exceptionally good language to teach programming in. Certainly b…
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Error stack traces in Go with x/xerror
A workaround to get nice stack traces for errors in Go.
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Maybe Functions
A coding anti-pattern that spreads it's tentacles across the codebase
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Swift – A great language strangled by governance?
A great language strangled by governance
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Scandalous Weird Old Things About The C Preprocessor (2015)
Updated 2018-01-21: Added clarification related to assertion about lack of context free nature of the C preprocessor.
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How undefined signed overflow enables optimizations in GCC
Signed integers are not allowed to overflow in C and C++, and this helps compilers generate better code. I was interested in how GCC is tak...
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Rust: Enums to Wrap Multiple Errors
This is a follow-up to Error handling in Rust from a couple of days ago. The moment we want to use error propagation for different error types, we have to rely on trait objects with Box<dyn Error>, which means we defer a lot of information from compile-time to runtime, for the sake of convenient error handling.
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Deep Dive into PHP 8's JIT
PHP 8's Just In Time compiler is implemented as part of the Opcache extension and aims to compile some Opcodes into CPU instructions in runtime. Let's understand how it works all together.
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ElixirNitpicks
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CCL: Categorical Configuration Language
Dmitrii Kovanikov's Personas Web Space
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Štar: an iteration construct for Common Lisp
Štar is a concise and extensible iteration construct for Common Lisp which aims to be pleasant to use, easy to understand, fast if needed, general, and not to look like Fortran....
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Functional JavaScript: Closure
After a seemingly endless journey , the publication of Functional JavaScript is complete and books have found their way into peoples’ homes. Below is a list of useful links related to the book:
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Enumerating and analyzing 40 non-V8 JavaScript implementations
Enumerating and analyzing 40+ non-V8 JavaScript implementations
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Understanding lvalues and rvalues in C and C++
The terms lvalue and rvalue are not something one runs into often in C/C++ programming, but when one does, it's usually not immediately clear what they mean. The most common place to run into these terms are in compiler error & warning messages. For example, compiling the following with gcc :
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Lua/APR - proper standard library for Lua
Lua/APR is a binding of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) for the Lua programming language . APR powers software such as the Apache webserver and Subversion and Lua/APR makes the APR operating system interfaces available to Lua, serving as an extended standard library. Thus far the following modules have been…
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Adding a new statement to Python
This article is an attempt to better understand how the front-end of Python works. Just reading documentation and source code may be a bit boring, so I'm taking a hands-on approach here: I'm going to add an until statement to Python.
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Lisp Hackers: Vladimir Sedach
Vladimir Sedach is an active open-source Common Lisp developer and proponent, as well as a computing philosopher to some extent. At his car...
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30 years of Brainfuck
Has nerd sniping gone too far?