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Common Lisp code optimisation
Common Lisp is one of the few languages which is both dynamic and also gives you a full native compiler and the ability to declare types ...
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 3,709 posts.
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Parsing Expression Grammar vs. Regexes: Building Org Parser in Lisp, Export HTML
Converting Org to HTML with (ice-9 peg) in Guile: OrgWebAlchemy
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Compiling Pattern Matching
This post intends to provide a brief overview of the algorithm described in Luc Maranget’s “ Compiling Pattern Matching to Good Decision Trees ”.
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Lightweight Concurrency in Lua
wingolog: article: lightweight concurrency in lua
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Writing a lexer in Go with Lexmachine (2016)
This article is about lexmachine , a library I wrote to help you write great lexers in Go. If you are looking to write a golang lexer or a lexer in golang this article is for you.
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Why Lisp is a Big Hack and Haskell is Doomed to Succeed (2011)
2013 Update: I was young and stupid when I wrote this. I fear that Haskell is doomed to succeed. — Tony Hoare I ♥ Lisp. I think it's t...
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Is APL Dead? Not anymore
Is APL dead? Not anymore. Changes in modern hardware, business needs, development methods, and our understanding of programming makes APL in its modern state perhaps more relevant and viable than ever before.
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Go and Simplicity Debt Redux
In my previous post I discussed my concerns the additional complexity adding generics or immutability would bring to a future Go 2.0. As it was an opinion piece, I tried to keep it around 500 words. This post is an exploration of the most important (and possibly overlooked) point of that post.
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From Rust to Ruby
Who does things like that?!? Apparently: me. I have my own project, written in Rust. Not a big one, mind you, maybe approx. 30k lines of code in total. Rust is verbose so it’s not really that impressive. I’ve put it aside for some time and was toying with local inference, LLMs, writing agents and my attention was…
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Programming Bottom-Up (1993)
(This essay is from the introduction to On Lisp .) It's a long-standing principle of programming style that the functional elements of a program should not be too large. If some component of a program grows beyond the stage where it's readily comprehensible, it becomes a mass of complexity which conceals errors as…
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What was wrong with SML?
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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A Failed Experiment with Python Type Annotations
I like Python, but wish it had static typing. The added safety would go a long way to improving quality and reducing development time. So today I tried to make use of type annotations and a static type-checker called mypy. After a few basic tests, I was excited. But my glee turned to disappointment rather […]
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Benchmarking Ruby 2.6 to 3.2
The yearly benchmarking Ruby post
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Nil in Go is typed in theory and sort of untyped in practice
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Python to Scheme to Assembly (2014)
In 2001, my favorite programming language was Python. In 2008, my favorite programming language was Scheme. In 2014, my favorite programming language …
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The Monad Challenges: Jump start your understanding of monads
There are still some rough edges here, and also a fair amount of content to be added. But if we waited until everything was polished before publishing, it would probably never happen. So feel free to make comments, suggestions, or contribute new content. As always, pull requests are the most desirable.
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Porting Libyaml to Safe Rust: Some Thoughts
The following is a loose collection of thoughts that came up while porting unsafe-libyaml to safe, idiomatic Rust, which may be useful to someone else who is considering "rewriting it in Rust", as the ancient journeyman prayer goes.
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A Response to Hello World in Go
Hi I'm Caleb Doxsey and welcome to my website. I'm a software developer. If you'd like to contact me, you can email me here: [email protected] .
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Julia Macros for Beginners
Macros are a powerful and interesting feature of the Julia programming language, but they can also be confusing. Users coming from Python, Matlab or R have not come in contact with similar constructs before, and they require a different way of thinking about code. This article is supposed to be a simple introduction…
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The inconceivable types of Rust: How to make self-borrows safe (2024)
One of the first things any Rust programmer learns is that you can’t pass an object and a reference to that object around at the same time. It’s impossible to do, even indirectly. This limitation has been the subject of countless questions on Stack Overflow and posts on Reddit and the Rust forums and anywhere else…
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Origins of Python's “Functional” Features (2009)
I have never considered Python to be heavily influenced by functional languages, no matter what people say or think. I was much more familia...
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