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Rebol vs. Lisp Macros
Author: HostileFork, Title: Rebol vs. Lisp Macros, Date: 19-Apr-2016, Length: 2220 words
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Programming Languages
The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 381 posts.
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New Edition of “Programming in Haskell” Now Available
An extensively updated and expanded version of the best-selling first edition. Now covers recent and more advanced features of Haskell.
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The Elixir of concurrency
Elixir is a fairly young language that was born when José and a few Rails developers tried to create a modern language optimized for concurrent, distributed, lightweight processes They wanted a modern Ruby-like syntax with a well-tested process ma
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The lack of a case against Python 3
A point-by-point rebuttal of Zed Shaw's Unicode and 2to3 complaints, with a trainer's view on which Python version to teach beginners in 2016.
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Multithreading in modern C++
With the new C++11 Standard, C++ faces the first time challenges of multicore architectures. The 2011 published standard defines how a C++ program has to behave in the presence of multiple threads. The C++11 multithreading capabilities are composed of two components. This is, on the one hand, the defined memory model…
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Composability: From Callbacks to Categories in ES6
Exploring Functional Programming ideas like Monads and Kleisli Category in JavaScript. Starting from an alternative solution to Promises.
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The Holy Trinity: Logic, Languages, Categories (2011)
The Christian doctrine of trinitarianism states that there is one God that is manifest in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who together form the Holy Trinity. The doctrine…
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Where are we in the Python 3 transition?
The Kübler-Ross model [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model] outlines the stages that one goes through in dealing with death: 1. Denial 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance This is sometimes referred to as the five stages of grief.Some have jokingly called
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Tyre – Typed regular expressions
I’m happy to announce the release of Tyre, a library for Typed Regular Expressions.
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Non-Lexical Lifetimes Based on Liveness in Rust
In my previous post I outlined several cases that we would like to improve with Rust’s current borrow checker. This post discusses one possible scheme for solving those. The heart of the post is two key ideas:
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The Four Flaws of Haskell
Summary: Last year I made a list of four flaws with Haskell. Most have improved significantly over the last year. No language/compiler ecosy...
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Why Would Anyone Use Perl 6?
I mean, can you get it any more WRONG?! The juvenile logo and awful color scheme of the website. The Christmas release that isn't all release-like. Version 6.c? Why not 6.0? What's with the whole "language" and "compiler" distinctions no one cares about? Why is the first stable release of the compiler not optimized to…
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From first principles: Why I bet on Scala.js
Three years ago, I downloaded the nascent Scala.js compiler and tried to use it on a toy project.
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Interview with Matt Might
Interview with Matt Might, a professor, programming languages researcher, investigator of rare disease, and popular blogger.
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Deep Learning in Rust
Meta Edit 2/2/2016: I wrote this post when deeplearn-rs was only a week old. This is more of a journal post where I reflect on things. To…
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GitMonitor on Elixir
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