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If they emptied their minds they’d have an easier time. Analogy will betray you. (on learning new concepts …)…
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The good news about Erlang can be summed up at this: Erlang is the culmination of twenty-five years of correct design decisions in the language and platform. Whenever I’ve wondered about how something…
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Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it’s easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it’s hard to fix. Rob Pike…
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I liken TAOCP to Proust. Fawned over by a small subset of people (rightfully so), a larger subset who talks about it but doesn’t actually read it, and shunned by the majority as dense and intimidating…
On syntax, in Haskell and Lisp
Yes, but not so much simplicity of syntax. I’m misled here by a superficial resemblance between the cultures of Haskell and Lisp. Both cultures are obsessed with mechanically processing code, and ther…
Nit-picking languages
It’s that (too frequent) time again … when I anxiously (and full of fickleness) wonder what language to increase familiarity with. The last year, I learnt quite a bit of common lisp, or atleast enoug…
Nit-picking languages
It's that (too frequent) time again ... when I anxiously (and full of fickleness) wonder what language to increase familiarity with. The last year, I learnt quite a bit of common lisp, or atleast…
The universal type
CL-USER> (setf universe (find-class 't)) #<BUILT-IN-CLASS T> CL-USER> (typep universe universe) T View On WordPress…
The universal type
CL-USER> (setf universe (find-class 't)) #<BUILT-IN-CLASS T> CL-USER> (typep universe universe) T…
A graphical Repl for Lisp
A graphical Repl for Lisp Finally found one of the things I was looking for! GTFL is a (ql:quickload "gtfl") call away. See this pdf to find out more. Meanwhile, here is an example:…
A graphical Repl for Lisp
Finally found one of the things I was looking for! GTFL is a (ql:quickload "gtfl") call away. See this pdf to find out more. Meanwhile, here is an example:…
Lisp, CLOS and Math
Lisp, CLOS and Math What, you say, mathematicians just have to use Haskell ?? Stop right there, and read this. Technically, there’s nothing new to see here at all. Lisp is high-level and low-level.…