Optimized Sudoku solver- Haskell to Scala
Context As hinted at in the first post, I found Abhinav’s posts to be a great source material for learning and (over this weekend) recreation :-) I picked the second post, where the pruning process…
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A simple Sudoku solver- Haskell to Scala
Context I found this excellent blog post by Abhinav Sarkar that lays out, step-by-step, writing a simple Sudoku solver in Haskell, and … it seemed a good idea to translate it, step-by-corresponding-s…
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…
Calculating, Scheming, and Paul Graham
Calculating, Scheming, and Paul Graham I came across [this paper] recently, and it challenged some of the thoughts/assumptions that had been building in my mind for a while (it discusses Scheme vs Mi…
Calculating, Scheming, and Paul Graham
I came across [this paper] recently, and it challenged some of the thoughts/assumptions that had been building in my mind for a while (it discusses Scheme vs Miranda, but you can imagine Lisp vs Haske…
Trying out Haskell again
Because, you know, every once in a while … Clear out existing stuff rm ~/.ghc ~/.cabal Get basic stuff sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ghc cabal-install Set up cabal cabal update cabal…
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Some half dozen persons have written technically on combinatory logic, and most of these, including ourselves, have published something erroneous. Since some of our fellow sinners are among the most…
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State machines are difficult to program and debug. Almost every consideration about the goto statement applies to the event handling mechanisms that manage state transitions. The event handlers do not…
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In fact, if I had to write “hello, world” in Haskell to avert the death penalty, it would take at least a look at the tutorial. If Haskell supporters admit that Haskell has failed, apologize for infli…