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Japanese Teenage Boy Improved Ruby 1.9 Performance By Up To 63%
Japanese online magazine, @IT Jibun Senryaku Lab. (information site for IT engineers to educate and/or develop oneself), published an interv...
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Secret Perl Operators
I love Perl because of its expressiveness. You can write incredible code and it feels just so natural compared to other languages. Here are 8 secret Perl operators that I often use. Only one of them is a real operator (first one). The others are syntactic tricks that make them look like operators but they are not…
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JQuery is a monad
It’s said that every Haskell programmer writes their own monad tutorial, and with good reason: once you finally understand the definition and capabilities of a monad, you’ll be eager to…
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Haskell is beautiful in practice
I’ve been writing a bit of Haskell lately (see my GitHub page ), and it’s an absolutely beautiful experience. And I mean that in every way: The language itself of course, but also the community, the documentation, the package system and the Haskell platform ultimately help make the practice of writing Haskell more…
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Joe Marshall's take on Guido Van Rossum's post on tail recursion
A blog about computers, functional languages, Lisp, and Scheme.
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Why Reddit uses Python
During Steve Huffman’s and Alexis Ohanian’s Pycon Keynote , someone asked why Reddit was moved from Lisp to Python . The reason for moving wasn’t too interesting, but why they have stayed is. Steve gave two “huge” reasons Reddit continues to use Python:
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The Most Unusual (and Best) Computer Language Book I've Ever Seen.
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby, from Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby by _why the lucky stiff. CC BY-SA 2.5.
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Steve Yegge: Lisp is not an acceptable Lisp. (2006)
Another enjoyable read. Thanks! One thing, though -- it's about time to update your understandings of Python's object system. Python's culture doesn't insist that traditional (Smalltalkish) OO is the One True Way to re-use code, but that doesn't mean that everything in Python is not an object (because they are, since…
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A year with Python
Almost exactly a year ago I wrote here about giving Python a try as my main programming language. Before that I was mainly writing in Perl, and eying Ruby from time to time as the replacement.
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Clojure: It’s About the Libraries
There’s a big ‘ol thread going on down at comp.lang.lisp about Clojure vs. Common Lisp. I’m biased, of course, but I have to say that Clojure and Rich Hickey are holding their own against some of the top c.l.l. flamers.
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Writing a compiler in Python using Lex, Yacc and LLVM
I found a good post on how to build your own toy compiler using Flex, Bison and LLVM. I saw one disadvantage right in the beginning: you had to use C++. If I w…
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Clojure: Genetic Mona Lisa problem in 250 beautiful lines
Clojure is surrounded by hype these days. The word on the streets is that Clojure is the Next Big Thing. It has access to the largest libra...