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An attempt at introducing Coalton to lispers without a background in ML-like languages - why-coalton-is-a-language.org

The City of Lacey has partnered with Love Local Events to bring food trucks, live music and other entertainment, family games, and more to the Lacey Depot Park from now through this fall.

APL was invented by Ken Iverson in the early 1960s as a notation for array oriented calculations. It was precise and useful enough, so it was implemented as a programming language, one of the old…

Catching up on the wacky and wild side of social media.

MIT Professor Jennifer Light teaches an experimental course, STS.014 (Embodied Education: Past Present and Future), that uses movement to aid education.

The Excellent Schemer

A show about Real Estate. A show about empowering people, giving back, living, laughing and loving/peace. First 30 minutes is about real estate- 2nd half is abo

There's a new shop opening in Dallas dedicated to records and comics: Called Black Cat Records N Comics, it'll be a pop culture destination combining

Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/s: How I Learned To Love Tail Calls in C April 21, 2021 __attribute__((musttail)) statement attributes, you can now get guaranteed tail calls in C, C++, and Objective-C. While tail calls are usually associated with a functional programming style, I am interested in them purely for performance reasons. It turns out that in some cases we can use tail calls to get better code out of the compiler than would otherwise be possible—at least given current compiler technology...

Is there still research to be done in Programming Languages? This essay touches both on the topic of programming languages and on the nature of research work. I am mostly concerned in analyzing this question in the context of Academia, i.e. within the expectations of academic programs and research funding agencies that support research work in the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). This is not the only possible perspective, but it is the one I am taking here. ...