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I’ve been learning at least one new programming language a month through Exercism which has been really fun and interesting. I frequently say that “every language you learn teaches you something about all the others you know” and with nearly a dozen under my belt so far I’m starting to worry about the combinatorics of…
Comparing zope.interface and typing.Protocol.
In this tutorial, you will discover a helpful step-by-step procedure and helpful questions to guide you to the most appropriate concurrency API.
Leo Ostera — making computers do things
Stack Some time ago i started to write a series of posts about assembly x64 programming. It is third part and it will be about stack. The...
I forked and modified Go compiler to add a new keyword called let, as alias for var
Stephen Wolfram explains the rich ruliology of lambdas, made particularly significant by their connection to practical computing. Covers basic computations to undecidability to multiway graphs and evaluation strategies.
Improving API function calls using inline assembly
As part of my OCaml Labs research project, I implemented a new macro system for OCaml, based on a design by Leo White and Jeremy Yallop [1] .
This post is part of the series “Debris: Opening the box”. Okay, previous posts from this series aimed to actually convey useful technical information: assuming you actually want to wri…
As a fun experiment, and to show the basics of clojure development, I implemented a minesweeper clone using clojurescript and p5.js.
“Compiler Engineering in Practice” is a blog series intended to pass on wisdom that seemingly every seasoned compiler developer knows, but is not systematically written down in any textbook or online resource. Some (but not much) prior experience with compilers is needed.
It is thankfully common wisdom nowadays that documentation must be placed as near as possible to the code it documents, and should be fine-grained to a minimal unit of describability (the thing being documented). The practice provides numerous benefits to the codebase and project as a whole:
Date: 2020-01-27 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00012-clang-compiler-hacking.md
The clojure.core team maintains a variety of high-quality and useful libraries for all sorts of tasks. Join me on a journey through their github account to sample the libraries formerly known as contrib
Writing, compiling, loading, and querying eBPF programs in one Lisp form.
There are some subtle differences between the revisions of the C standard that makes it possible to create programs that behaves differentl...
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Here's a Forth program debugged in KDevelop – a graphical debugger without Forth support:
I looked into Python because I was considering translating the Lisp code for the Russell & Norvig AI textbook into Java. Some instructors and students wanted Java because
I was recently contacted from a person I had never met before, asking for some comments on Nim and Rust. Since I have taken a little time to answer, I figured I might as well publish my thoughts.
A longer explanation of why I think that the CoffeeScript scoping is problematic and should be changed.
