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In Praise of APL: A Language for Lyrical Programming (1977)
In Praise of APL: A Language for Lyrical Programming Professor Alan J. Perlis Yale University
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 5,634 posts.
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C and C++ Aren't Future Proof
My hope would be option 1 for application code (as opposed to the “systems code” that you have there): fewer and fewer people use these languages to write application code. Moreover, I think that’s probably happening to some extent.
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All Lisp indentation schemes are ugly
Indentation styles are a hot topic in every language. So let's see how Lisps do indentation! Uuuuuuugh!
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Move, simply
C++ “move” semantics are simple, and unchanged since C++11. But they are still widely misunderstood, sometimes because of unclear teaching and sometimes because of a desire to view move…
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The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala
We’re truly excited to share that Scala has received an investment from the Sovereign Tech Fund to strengthen Scala’s long-term security, maintenance, and developer experience.
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What I wish I knew when learning OCaml (2018)
This is a poorly structured list of common questions and answers about OCaml I had to ask myself or have been asked often.
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Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn't (2011)
Updated (2014-10-24): If you find this article interesting, you may be interested in the follow-up article on an editor for composed programs .
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Crystal 1.11.0 Is Released
We are announcing a new Crystal release with several new features and bug fixes.
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A Critique of the Cap'n Proto Schema Language (2019)
Historical reference to Ian Denhardt’s A Critique of the Cap'n Proto Schema Language (2019-06-25), with archive and current documentation links.
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Dreaming of a Parser Generator for Language Design
Trying to design a new programming language, I’m faced with the question of how to implement a parser for it. Various parser generators are available and sup...
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Learning a new language, or how I gained familiarity with Go
How I've eased into a new language, Go, as a Senior Software Engineer, and some initial thoughts on the language.
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Porting a Golang and Rust CLI tool to D
Programming, retrogaming, hacking and computer stuff.
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Who Says C is Simple? (2010)
When I (George) started to write CIL I thought it was going to take two weeks. Exactly a year has passed since then and I am still fixing bugs in it. This gross underestimate was due to the fact that I thought parsing and making sense of C is simple. You probably think the same. What I did not expect was how many dark…
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TypeScript 3.7 Beta
We're pleased to announce TypeScript 3.7 Beta, a feature-complete version of TypeScript 3.7. Between now and the final release, we'll be fixing bugs and
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Faster Sorting with Go Generics
Recently, a new set of sorting functions has landed in Go's golang.org/x/exp/slices package [1] . These functions leverage Go generics to provide a more ergonomic API for sorting (without requiring users to implement sort.Interface ), and also deliver a nice performance improvement, as the CL demonstrates.
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ECMAScript 4: The Missing Version
In your build tools, you may have noticed that you have an ECMAScript 3 target, and 5 and up, but never a 4. Why is that?
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Learning Clojure: comparing with Java streams
This is the 6th post in the Learning Clojure focus series. In general, one learns by comparing to what one already knows: I’m learning Clojure in that way. Coming from a Java background, I naturally want to use streaming features. So, what would be the Clojure counterparts of Java’s functions filter(), map(), etc.?
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Clojure: `every-pred` and `some-fn`
This post is part of Advent of Parens 2019 , my attempt to publish one blog post a day during the 24 days of the advent. Ah clojure.core , it’s like an all you can eat hot-pot....
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Coalton Playground: Type-Safe Lisp in the Browser
I wanted to share a side project I’ve been tinkering with for a while and finally got around to shipping: Coalton Playground – basically a web-based REPL for Coalton, which is this inte…
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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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Smalltalk Envy
I myself was not on the famous C3 (Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System) project in 1996-2000 that is pivotal to ‘Extreme Programming’ (XP). That project used Smalltalk, and team contribution was provided by Object Technology International’s ENVY version control system. I wanted to know more about that so I…
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The Python GIL Visualized
In preparation for my upcoming PyCON'2010 talk on "Understanding the Python GIL", I've been working on a variety of new material--including some graphical visualization of the GIL behavior described in my earlier talk . I'm still experimenting, but check it out.
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Query-Based Compiler Architectures
What a query-based compiler is and what they are good for.
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Debugging Lisp (2015)
This post is for all of the miscellaneous features that arent large enough to get their own individual posts. If you havent read all of them, here are the links to the previous posts on recompilation , inspection , class … Read the rest