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May 2015 Links, Part 2
Prolog I’ve revived my interest in prolog, because no matter how hard I look, I can’t find anything more pleasant for programming work. There are warts, of course, and speed concerns at times, but it really is a unique island in a sea or samey computer languages. Lazy lists (streams) In prolog – I thought…
May 2015 Links, Part 1
Here are the links I enjoyed in April and the first half of May: Java/Scala I’ve been looking to stick to one language, as much as possible, so that I build up a large library of software over time. The last 10 years I’ve been jumping from cool language to cool language, starting from scratch…
Borwein Revisited
In a February post, I wrote a few implementations of Borwein’s Pi-approximation algorithm, just for fun. Today, I re-wrote it in C, and I can’t help but note that it’s: shorter than the other implementations equally clear, if not more clear Something to think about, next time you want to put C down for not being modern and…
Wayward Code 