Monthly Archives: June 2010

Wicked cool — mandlebulb fly-through

Please, PLEASE watch this in HD full screen. Wow. Math can be breathtakingly beautiful. via YouTube – Mandelbox trip.

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GOTOs inconvenient

From “The Discovery of Continuations” The talk actually had one direct and important consequence for computing. Under the inspiration of the notion of the unnecessity of goto’s, Dijkstra spent that evening constructing realistic examples of programs without goto’s, … So … Continue reading

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Trouble with OOP

Subtyping, Subclassing, and Trouble with OOP. Excerpt: What makes this problem more unsettling is that both you and I tried to do everything by the book. We wrote a safe, typechecked code. We eschewed casts. g++ (2.95.2) compiler with flags … Continue reading

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Best and Free Programming Ebooks

(updated / switched link to source article on stack overflow) So, I wrote my list of some unique programming texts. But on the more practical side, there’s this: Best and Free Programming Ebooks. Free full texts, covering: Bash, C, C++, … Continue reading

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Hacker News | “it was designed to restrict the kind of trouble programmers can get themselves …

Great one liner on PL design: Every programming language is designed to restrict trouble programmers can get into. The key is that they all have different ideas of trouble. via Hacker News

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<humor> Yeah, Toast

So, for those not familiar, I go by toast` on the programming language IRC channels. So when I saw this video come up on youtube, with Mr. Engineer (my preferred TF2 class), I had a feeling of a certain kind … Continue reading

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