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Parrot VM v1.0.0 released
You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been A place that has to be believed to be seen You could have flown away A singing bird in an open cage Who will only fly, only fly for freedom...
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C and C++ are not the same language.
In the web world, a world I’ve made my way back to in the last year, pointers are an exotic relic of the past. Â Seriously.
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2009: The Year in Haskell
Spend some time to catch up on what’s been happening in Haskell this year. In this edition of the Web News, we look back on the major Haskell news of 2009. You can also read this edition in P…
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Blogging about Midori (2015)
Joe Duffy's Blog | Adventures in the high-tech underbelly
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Why Dijkstra suggested Premature-Loop-Exit Prohibition
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Programming with Nothing (2011)
I love Ruby! I’ve used it every day for years and I’m not sick of it yet. It’s an easy language to love: it’s expressive, flexible and syntactically beautiful ; it has a unique combination of useful features like mixins , metaclasses and blocks ; it comes with a useful core library and comprehensive standard library …
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Beating the Averages (2001)
April 2001, rev. April 2003 (This article is derived from a talk given at the 2001 Franz Developer Symposium.) In the summer of 1995, my friend Robert Morris and I started a startup called Viaweb . Our plan was to write software that would let end users build online stores. What was novel about this software, at the…
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Multicore Programming in Haskell Now
Here are the slides source for today’s DEFUN tutorial: Multicore Programming in Haskell Now! Multicore computers are here: is your programming language ready for it? Haskell is: you can take …
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Next permutation: When C++ gets it right
An investigation into a classic algorithm for generating the distinct permutations of a sequence in lexicographical order. A Word Aligned article posted 2009-11-19, tagged Puzzles, C++, Algorithms, Python, Google.
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The Y Combinator in Arc and Java
I was recently reading The Little Schemer , a very intersting book about how to think in Scheme. The book uses a unique question-response ...
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The Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely Must Know About Unicode (2003)
Ever wonder about that mysterious Content-Type tag? You know, the one you’re supposed to put in HTML and you never quite know what it should be? Did you ever get an email from your friends in…
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Where Lisp Fails: at Turning People into Fungible Cogs
A favorite conundrum of many Lisp aficionados is why the language appears to languish in disuse. Talk of cultural problems , "the library question" (which usually boils down to nonsensical circular reasoning), too many parentheses, and other absurdities simply dances around the blindingly obvious explanation - one…
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Visualization of the Grammars of Ruby, Java and Javascript
As part of the momentum surrounding the Ruby implementer’s summit , I have decided to take on a pet project to understand Ruby’s grammar better, with the goal of contributing to an implementation-independent specification of the grammar. Matz mentioned during his keynote how parse.y was one of the uglier parts of Ruby…
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Clojure N00b Tips from Tim Bray
Clojure is the new hotness among people who think the JVM is an interesting platform for post-Java languages, and for people who think there’s still life in that ol’ Lisp beast, and for people who worry about concurrency and state in the context of the multicore future. Over the last few days I’ve been severely…
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Why Python Programmers Should Learn Python
A Word Aligned article posted 2007-07-01, tagged Python, Java, Puzzles.
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