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From this HN thread > For me, the ultimate modern language would look something like Smalltalkish syntax and IDE, with Elixir/Erlang like execution semantics, but retaining a strong object/class d…
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A minimalist scheme (R4RS, in 4K!) www.iro.umontreal.ca/~feeley/p...…
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Fun take on the various bits of naming and pronunciation of Guix ("geeks"): lambda-y.net/post/sche...…
Cycles of threading
From this HN thread I gotta say, as a programmer "of a certain age", a lot of recent advances have an everything-old-is-new-again feel to me. When I first heard of "threads" in th…
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Makers of Pizza
I went to pick up a pizza yesterday, which we sometimes order from this place that's about a ten-minute walk away. As I was waiting to pick it up and pay for it, I was able to see how the pizza w…
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On catastrophe
From the blurb of a book by John David Ebert Disasters, both natural and man-made, are on the rise. Indeed, a catastrophe of one sort or another seems always to be unfolding somewhere on the planet.…
Flexibility vs consistency
The "tragic tradeoff" in programming languages: I still remember a wonderful presentation by Damian Conway a number of years ago about all of the great ways Perl 6 could turn into whatever…
New pyramids and villages in the Amazon
The "Lidar payoff" continues! www.wsj.com/articles/... > Many of the sites included complex monumental mounds known as lomas, waterways and reservoirs, in addition to massive pyramids t…
Yield curves
Playing around with Wolfram Mathematica again for a bit: https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/accountwolfram/Published/YieldCurve.nb Notebook is viewable here.…