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Joel Spolsky: Can your programming language do this?
One day, you’re browsing through your code, and you notice two big blocks that look almost exactly the same. In fact, they’re exactly the same, except that one block refers to “Sp…
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 173 posts.
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JavaScript is Not Web Assembly
Writing and Stuff from Isaac Z. Schlueter
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Python and the Principle of Least Astonishment
Why Python follows the Principle of Least Astonishment even when some people are surprised.
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The depth and breadth of Python
As of late I'm noticing a trend: I'm spending more time having in-person in-depth conversations, and less time coding. While I regret the la...
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C++ 11 Approved
[Update: “C++11” is now the confirmed name — Geneva informs me that they plan to have it published in a matter of weeks, and then we’ll have ISO/IEC 14882:2011(E) Programmin…
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Why Not Haskell?
Why I haven't been writing much Haskell code lately.
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Parsing: the solved problem that isn't
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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The Clojure Community and Me
This website is for sale! raynes.me is your first and best source for information about raynes. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
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Yammer moving from Scala to Java
Following up on my recent Scala posts , some commented that because I haven't used Scala seriously, my opinion is of little value. I respo...
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This is CoffeeScript
I’ve been writing some CoffeeScript lately, and it’s been fantastic. I wish I...
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Learn Perl in about 2 hours 30 minutes
Perl is a dynamic, dynamically-typed, high-level, scripting (interpreted) language most comparable with PHP and Python. Perl's syntax owes a lot to ancient shell scripting tools, and it is famed for its overuse of confusing symbols, the majority of which are impossible to Google ...
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Why developers should be force-fed state machines
This post is meant to create more awareness about state machines in the web application developer crowd. If you don’t know what state machines are, please read up on them first. Wikipedia is a good place to start, as always. State machines are awesome The main reason for using state machines is to help the design…
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What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior #2/3
In Part 1 of our series, we discussed what undefined behavior is, and how it allows C and C++ compilers to produce higher performance applications than "safe" languages. This post talks about how "
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Every language fixes something - a DiGraph - just for fun
Oh, and - added later - the original from PG is undated, but the "enhanced" version below it was on the C2 wiki in 2003/2004 and possibly earlier, so don't for one minute think it's supposed to be up-to-date, or refer to modern version of these languages.
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Guido van Rossum: Before Python
This morning I had a chat with the students at Google's CAPE program. Since I wrote up what I wanted to say I figured I might as well blog ...
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"A JVM Does What?"
Cliff Click gave a very good talk at Google last week. For your viewing enjoyment: The slides are available here . (For those who watched i...
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Super Mario 64 was built with a system written in Lisp
Franz is a leading vendor of Graph Search Technology (AllegroGraph and Gruff) and Common Lisp Software Development Tools (Allegro CL and AllegroCache)