C++ vs C# vs F# vs Haskell
Since I first posted an F# solution to Left-Truncatable Primes, C# and Haskell have entered the frame, and although this is not a good problem for a serious comparison of languages, I think it is still...
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The first time I encountered an external Domain-specific language (DSL) was in the summer of 1988. It was over the school holidays while working on the conversion of 2 video games:Stryx a 2d scrolling...
View ArticleScrap your Boilerplate
Boilerplate is any seemingly repetitive code that shows up again and again, like getting and setting instance variables, but seems like it ought to be much simpler.Jon Harrop recently commented on an...
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F# eye for the C++ guy
As a C++11 programmer you’ve probably played with type inference and lambda functions and may now feel curious about trying a functional first programming language like F#. F# is a first class .Net...
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Strangeloop 2012
This year I had the privilege of attending and speaking at the Strangeloop conference in St Louis. The venues, the Union Street Marriot (a National Historic Landmark), and the Peabody Opera House were...
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