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What MIT's CHAOS network did better than TCP/IP(snell-pym.org.uk)
1 points by alaricsp 17y ago|0 comments
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by alaricsp 17y ago
The best introduction to real computer science that I know is the book "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs". It teaches programming in terms of Lisp, but don't be put off - it's just because Lisp is a good vehicle for explori
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The Factor compiler is starting to beat the JVM at its own game(factor-language.blogspot.com)
1 points by alaricsp 17y ago|0 comments
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by alaricsp 17y ago
Now I'm wondering if they count as design patterns or not...
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Scheme Cookbook: Common idioms and recipes in Scheme(schemecookbook.org)
31 points by alaricsp 17y ago|2 comments
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Scheme Steering Committee: R7RS process is taking shape (and it looks good)(scheme-reports.org)
10 points by alaricsp 17y ago|0 comments
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by alaricsp 17y ago
Other than JIT recompilation in VMs of various kinds (which is only indirectly related), no, not that I know of...
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by alaricsp 17y ago
That is indeed a most potent collection of detailed arguments! Now, let's just wait for my colleague to start ribbing me for keeping our project written in C again... ;-)
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by alaricsp 17y ago
I think it's a knee-jerk reaction to how the more zealotous members of the design patterns community have had knee-jerk reactions to people questioning the scripture status of the Design Patterns book. Once a bunch of people get religious,
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by alaricsp 17y ago
Yes... sort of. SRFI-4 ( http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-4/srfi-4.html ) provides a standard interface for dealing with 'homogenous vectors' (eg, arrays of unboxed integers or floats), which is great for shuffling bytes. For bits, there's the
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by alaricsp 17y ago
Yeah! Synthesis is quite excellent. I've been interested in exploring using the FORTH model of easily-accessible-runtime-compiler in that sort of context...
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by alaricsp 17y ago
I've not seen anything like the dynamic-dispatch optimisations the Self team came up with in the 1990s done in C++, nor problem-domain optimisations expressed as macros as is often done in Lisps, nor the aggressive constant-propagation of c
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by alaricsp 17y ago
FWIW, I'm working in C for my day job (and resisting calls to move up to C++), as my day job involves shuffling bytes around rather than particularly complex code; it's ~20KLOC. Then we build the tools to manage it in Python with a bit of s
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by alaricsp 17y ago
That day may not be too far off... I hope ;-)
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by alaricsp 17y ago
Nowt wrong with skimming a surface, sometimes you can get more impact with a one-page summary than a long essay :-)
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Why C++ is not my favourite language(snell-pym.org.uk)
17 points by alaricsp 17y ago|52 comments
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by alaricsp 17y ago
I agree with some points and disagree with others here. I think I see three underlying problems: 1) Mutable state has consequences, and OO happens to highlight some of them 2) The author would probably prefer generic functions, the "other w
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If Apple don’t launch a tablet equal or better than this…(visionaforethought.wordpress.com)
1 points by alaricsp 17y ago|0 comments
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by alaricsp 17y ago
Nice! I wonder how well the moving contacts to bring the power from the live and neutral to the power cable will survive, though - they may become worn and intermittent with time. Do we really need the fold-out wings? Could we not just rota
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by alaricsp 17y ago
Hmmm, IPSec. I've always found IPSec to have a nice feature list, but to be implemented in a painful way when it comes to working with NATs! A nice feature of n2n is that, when you want to send to a node that's behind NAT, the supernode can
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Distributed software development with git and n2n(blog.geniedb.com)
20 points by alaricsp 17y ago|3 comments
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by alaricsp 17y ago
Quite possibly! I need to go and re-learn Haskell's typeclasses - I found them quite elegant when I looked at them years ago, but have forgotten it all since :-( Ah, the penalties of age...
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How do we model the semantics of generic functions in pure languages?(snell-pym.org.uk)
4 points by alaricsp 17y ago|2 comments