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by wingo 18y ago
> Are you sure you know what monadic computation is? I think so, but of course I could be wrong. In my ignorance, I understand monadic computation as a functional state transfer in which a seed is threaded through some computation -- be
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by wingo 18y ago
I liked the article, but it was very much "in the weeds". I hack Scheme, and have never written any Haskell, though you have to know some to read the papers. But when programming in Scheme I find myself wanting monadic operations, like the
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by wingo 18y ago
I'm surprised no-one mentioned SXML, Kiselyov's representation of XML in Scheme. His paper, "A better XML parser through functional programming", can be found here: http://okmij.org/ftp/papers/XML-parsing.ps.gz . The introduction covers th
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by wingo 18y ago
Great conversation! I like the pervasive biological metaphor that they use. Intercellular enzymes might operate with the precision of programs, but they float in a forgiving, scalable goo. I want that goo in my software. The most advanced p
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by wingo 18y ago
Reminds me of Pascal Constanza's context-oriented programming stuff.
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by wingo 18y ago
My god, that was a great article. Thanks for the link.
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by wingo 18y ago
Yes, you're right. It's high time someone blew the whistle on all the silly prattle about revamping our language to suit the purposes of certain political fanatics. (From one D. R. Hofstadter, http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readin
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by wingo 18y ago
The site seems to be choking; you can catch a syndicated copy over on http://scheme.dk/planet/ . Neat stuff!
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by wingo 18y ago
My instincts agree with you, but the rational part of my mind can't distinguish statements that are affected by Gödel's theorem from those that are not.
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by wingo 18y ago
I also work something similar (three days a week). I recommend it highly. This year has been one of the most productive of my life. This quote is nice: "Perhaps I am more than usually jealous of my freedom. I feel that my connections with a
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by wingo 18y ago
I assume you're posting this one because of the reddit article. I've probably had as many (or half as many -- anyway, on the big-O) reads of that article in the past day due to reddit as in the previous two years, <i>probably becaus
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by wingo 18y ago
I would give myself a copy of "Disciplined Minds" by Jeff Schmidt. It explains so many things I didn't understand then. It is probably the most important book that I have read in the last five years.
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by wingo 18y ago
I enjoyed this because I wasn't aware that Clojure could run on .NET (IKVM or otherwise). Thanks!
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by wingo 18y ago
A problem with your statement is that you can substitute "data" for "anecdotes": A plurality of data sampled without bias? That's the problem: interesting anecdotes become data while uninteresting anecdotes don't, which is why you can't rec
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by wingo 18y ago
I love the existence of "alpha librarians".
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by wingo 18y ago
Most people start with their hands out in front, then settle down to a shoot-from-the-hip pose that's much more comfortable.
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An ever-compiling quine in Scheme(wingolog.org)
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