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The miracle of reading and writing Chinese characters
March 26, 2017 @ 9:24 am · Filed by Victor Mair under Information technology , Language and computers , Language teaching and learning , Writing , Writing systems
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From Ruby to Crystal: A Quick Look
I'll definitely keep an eye on Crystal as it comes out of its beta phase. The syntax is familiar and easy to pick up and the performance is great.
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Tom Duff on Duff's device (1988)
I normally do not read comp.lang.c, but Jim McKie told me that `` Duff's device '' had come up in comp.lang.c again. I have lost the version that was sent to netnews in May 1984, but I have reproduced below the note in which I originally proposed the device. (If anybody has a copy of the netnews version, I would…
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The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages
“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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Clojure - Getting Started
Clojure is a dynamic development environment where you interact with your program while you write it, growing and adding to it while it’s running. To work with Clojure you need an editor that supports evaluation in source files and structural editing (working with nested forms in addition to character editing).
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PEP 557 – Data Classes
This PEP describes an addition to the standard library called Data Classes. Although they use a very different mechanism, Data Classes can be thought of as “mutable namedtuples with defaults”. Because Data Classes use normal class definition syntax, y...
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More Dots: Syntactic Loop Fusion in Julia
After a lengthy design process (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8450) and preliminary foundations in Julia 0.5 (/blog/2016-10-11-julia-0.5-highlights#vectorized_function_calls), Julia 0.6 includes new facilities for writing code in the "vectorized"...