Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
13sep2008
ACOVEA (Analysis of Compiler Options via Evolutionary Algorithm) implements a genetic algorithm to find the “best” options for compiling programs with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) C and C++ compilers. “Best”, in this context, is defined as those options that produce the fastest executable program from a given source code.
Functional programming languages: Operational semantics, abstract machines and program transformations, course material by Xavier Leroy. Comprehensive and well put together.
There’s the hatred that strangles
The throat of a man
But the worst of all hatred
Is that which is planned
Against what we have
In this goddess of land
— Levellers, Maid Of The River
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The App Store’s Exclusionary Policies, John Gruber, insightful as usual: “If there were other means of distributing iPhone apps – to put it in Paul Kafasis’s terms, if Apple’s were an App Store rather than the App Store – then it would be acceptable for Apple’s store to be exclusionary.”
Modern Forth, by Stephen Pelc. “Modern Forth systems are not like their ancestors.”
Nondeterministic Regular Expression Parsing Library For arc, by Conrad Barski. Features a nice introductory comic.
Muttator is a free browser add-on for Thunderbird, which makes it look and behave like the Vim text editor. It has similar key bindings, and you could call it a modal mail client, as key bindings differ according to which mode you are in. “This one just sucks less than Mutt.”
Ignore everybody. The more original your idea is, the less good advice other people will be able to give you. — Hugh MacLeod
OSCON? Gone, am I the only one noticing a general dissatisfaction regarding O’Reilly conferences lately, especially related to their location?
Hey, you got your loop in my recursion!, Chris Okasaki on the impair of stateful programming when teaching recursion.
5, John Baez last favorite number talk.
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