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Oracle sues Google over Android and Java
Oracle sues Google over Android and Java | CNET News. Wow. Sun may have open-sourced Java in the past, but at this moment, the JVM seems like a more hostile platform than .Net.
Island/Lake recursion
The Island and Lake Combination. For those who are curious which is the largest (island in a lake on an)^2 on an island. Because recursion isn’t just for programmers and computers.
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Go: Defer, Panic, and Recover
It seems after much resistance to the idea, Go has added exception handling to the language in the form of defer, panic, and recover. The Go Programming Language Blog: Defer, Panic, and Recover. Don’t get me wrong, I think the’ve … Continue reading
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Functional Programming, Reductio
Came across a slide deck via Reddit with an excellent point, cutting across the various functional programming diciplines: Central to the thesis of FP is the notion of referential transparency. Referential transparency leads to program compositionality. // #1 X x = function(); … Continue reading
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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