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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 227 posts.
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Functional thinking: Why functional programming is on the rise
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Little Lisp interpreter
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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Rambling On [PHP] Internals
This is a post that I didn’t want to write. Actually, it’s a post that I still don’t want to write. But I find myself in a situation where I feel that I have to say something. So I’m going to just ope
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Haskell Lenses In Pictures
Aditya Bhargava's personal blog.
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Angular Announces AngularDart
Today the Angular team announced the beta release of the AngularDart framework, their port of Angular to Dart. AngularDart is heavily ins...
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Two years of production Go at CloudFlare
Almost two years ago CloudFlare started working with Go. What started as an experiment on one network and concurrency heavy project has turned into full, production use of Go for multiple services.
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ClojureScript 101
While none of the ideas in core.async are new, understanding how to solve problems with CSP is simply not as well documented as using plain callbacks or Promises . My previous posts have mostly explored fairly sophisticated uses of core.async , this post instead takes the form of a very basic tutorial on using…
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My Clojure Workflow, Reloaded
This is a companion post to my discussion with Craig Andera on Relevance Podcast Episode 32 and my Clojure/West talk Clojure in the Large. I've talked about ...
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How Python became the language of choice for data science
Nowadays Python is probably the programming language of choice (besides R) for data scientists for prototyping, visualization, and running data analyses on small and medium sized data sets. And...
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Replacing Python
In the first post, I took a brief look at the programming languages ATS, C#, Go, Haskell, OCaml, Python and Rust to try to decide which would be the …
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Staring at the Sun: Dalvik vs. Asm.js vs. Native
As many of you are probably already aware, Mozilla has recently gotten into the mobile OS space with Firefox OS. Firefox OS is built using ...
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Racket v5.3.2
_posted by Eli Barzilay_ Racket version 5.3.2 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Core Libraries:: The new `math` library provides functions and data structures for working with numbers and collections of numbers. Functions include non-ele...
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Turning the Apple //e into a lisp machine, part 1
Alex Clemmer is a computer programmer. Other programmers love Alex, excitedly describing him as "employed here" and "the boss's son".
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On the Cleverness of Compilers
The “Sufficiently Clever Compiler” has become something of a trope in the Lisp community: the mythical beast that promises language and interface designers near-unlimited freedom, and leaves their output in a performance lurch by its non-appearance. A few years ago, I was young enough to join a research project to…
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Everything about Java 8
A comprehensive summary of the developer-facing changes coming in Java 8.
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I hate the Pumping Lemma
I hate the Pumping Lemma for regular languages. It’s a complicated way to express an idea that is fundamentally very simple, and it isn’t even a very good way to prove that a language is not regula…
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Python's sad, unimaginative Enum
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