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Though Frank Sinatra says it best , “I’m leaving today” isn’t exactly accurate; my last day as a Microsoft employee was July 23rd, 2010. This post is almost two weeks delayed as Felicia and I have been on the road since the 26th, driving cross-country to the east coast; we also decided to leave Seattle in favor of New…
Recently I had to go through some code that uses the uIP TCP/IP stack, which reminded me, it has been a long time since I did something in C so I ended up spending the weekend implementing the 10 rules John McCarthy described in his paper A Micro-Manual for Lisp - not the whole Truth .
Using the C preprocessor to achive basic generic collection types.
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I'm Tav, a 28-year old from London. I enjoy working on large-scale social, economic and technological systems.
Announcing the Go Playground, https://play.golang.org/.
(You probably already have realized this.) The reason the compiler produced code that terminated was based upon the fact that the values being altered (i.e., a, b and c) within the “while” loop are never referenced again after the loop. But, once you added code which printed the resulting values it was forced to…
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Clojure is written in terms of abstractions. There are abstractions for sequences, collections, callability, etc. In addition, Clojure supplies many implementations of these abstractions. The abstractions are specified by host interfaces, and the implementations by host classes. While this was sufficient for…
Here are my Clojure Conj slides, From Concurrency to Parallelism: an illustrated guide to multi-core parallelism in Clojure. The version of clojure.par I used isn’t publicly available yet, bu…
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Code like you speak. Like making computers do your bidding? Enjoy Python features like lambdas? Indent-grouping? List comprehensions, but tired of OLD MAN PYTHON telling YOU how to...
An introduction to the Go's defer, panic, and recover control flow mechanisms.
I’ve been doing a lot of work, lately, with JavaScript inheritance – namely for my work-in-progress JavaScript book – and in doing so have examined a number of different JavaScript classical-inheritance-simulating techniques. Out of all the ones that I’ve looked at I think my favorites were the implementations…
Urbit is a static functional namespace : a programming environment specified as a single stateless, frozen function. The Urbit function is ...
This PEP proposes the merger of the Unladen Swallow project 3 into CPython’s source tree. Unladen Swallow is an open-source branch of CPython focused on performance. Unladen Swallow is source-compatible with valid Python 2.6.4 applications and C extensi...
This PEP introduces a syntax for adding arbitrary metadata annotations to Python functions 1.
The Scheme part of the name PLT Scheme is misleading, and it is often an obstacle to explaining and promoting PLT research and tools.
