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Counting Things in Python: A History
Sometimes the Pythonic way to solve a problem changes over time. As Python has evolved, so has the Pythonic way to count list items. Let’s look at...
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 325 posts.
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ECMAScript 6
An overview of some of the most interesting features of ECMAScript 6, the latest version of the JavaScript specification.
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BEAM languages, Hindley–Milner type systems, and new technologies
Eric Merritt, Erlang and distributed systems expert, gives his views on BEAM languages, Hindley–Milner type systems and new technologies In this case, This is not a Monad tutorial interviewed Eric …
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How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia
IBM Developer is the source for hands-on training and in-demand learning on relevant technologies such as generative AI, data science, Java, and more.
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State of the Common Lisp Ecosystem
Personal website of Fernando Borretti.
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Running Swift code on Android
Apple's Swift has been available for over a year now, and Apple has promised it will be made available under an Open-Source license by the end of 2015.
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Perl 6 is fun
This post got a lot of discussion on Hacker News that you might find interesting. I’ve been writing a fair bit of Perl 6 lately, and my main takeaway so far is that Perl 6 is fun. Pretty much everything I love in Perl 5 is still part of Perl 6, but almost everything I hate is gone too. $Love - $Hate = $Fun; Here are…
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Wikipedia on HHVM
If you’ve been watching our GitHub wiki, following us on Twitter, or reading the wikitech-l mailing list, you’ve probably known for a while that Wikipedia ha...
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Cursive, an IDE for Clojure and ClojureScript, has reached 1.0
Cursive, the Clojure IDE that understands your code. Advanced structural editing, refactorings, VCS integration and much more, all out of the box.
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151-byte static Linux binary in Rust
Part of the sales pitch for Rust is that it's "as bare metal as C". 1 Rust can do anything C can do, run anywhere C can run, 2 with code...
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The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages (1987)
“The Implementation of Functional Languages” is a book about implementing functional programming languages using lazy graph reduction, and it divides into three parts. The first part describes how to translate a high-level functional language into an intermediate language, called the lambda calculus, incuding detailed…
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Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge
A couple of months back, we announced that we had started development on Asm.js. Support for Asm.js has been one of the top 10 most-requested items at the Microsoft Edge Developer Suggestion Box on UserVoice since we launched it in December 2014. Since that time, we’ve made good progress, and in Windows 10 Insider…
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Introducing Incremental
I’m pleased to announce the release of Incremental (well commented mli here), a powerful library for building self-adjusting computations, i.e., computations...
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Why OCaml, why now? (2014)
OCaml first hit my radar in November 2013. I had just learnt SML, a similar but older language, in the excellent Programming Languages Coursera course. Dan Grossman is one of the best lecturers I&#…
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Show HN: Clojure by Example
Clojure by Example
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Why Perl Didn't Win
Perl used to be everywhere. Its fall from grace wasn't inevitable. Here's how it could have been prevented.
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The Kotlin Language: 1.0 Beta Is Here
We are extremely pleased to present Kotlin 1.0 Beta for JVM and Android! To recap: Kotlin is a modern programming language that JetBrains has been working on for quite some time now. This post gives
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Python C API, PyPy and the road into the future
tl;dr; We are willing to commercially support CPython C API in PyPy, so if you want pypy to support library X, get in touch with me at fij...
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