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Laziness is a virtue (in programming)
Introduction One of the things I really appreciate about Python is that it allows me to explore different programming styles. When I started with Python (coming from a C/C++/Java background) I would...
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Haskell byte strings to the rescue!
After my (naive) mergesort implementation from yesterday used around 730 MB of RAM to sort a (26 MB) file containing approx. 400,000 strings I consulted the good folks on the #haskell IRC channel....
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Wrap-up: mergesort in haskell
I have to admit that I didn’t fully understand the apfelmus example code. Nevertheless, I made an effort to address both of his criticisms: The merge() function does not use an accumulator argument any...
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My new favourite book
I was attending the UDS in Mountain View last week and it proved to be one of those fascinating albeit somewhat exhausting events (please see either of these resources for UDS reports and commentary)....
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