Category Archives: repost

Oracle sues Google over Android and Java

Posted on August 12, 2010 by aaron

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.

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Island/Lake recursion

Posted on August 9, 2010 by aaron

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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Functional Programming, Reductio

Posted on July 1, 2010 by aaron

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 →

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GOTOs inconvenient

Posted on June 25, 2010 by aaron

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

Posted on June 20, 2010 by aaron

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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