A few weeks ago I was asking about stack based languages in #scheme. I would like to learn more about them and I was looking for a good language with which to start.
Joy was pointed out as a great place to start, and in particular this tutorial is the best place to start with [...]
Last year I asked a question about Automata via Macros to the PLT Discussion List. The paper is about an extended example of a problem posed by Shriram Krishnamurthi at the Lightweight Languages 1 conference. I was trying to understand how one might use the same FSA language to generate different outputs. Many folks explained [...]
In this thread on the PLT discussion list, the original poster was encountering a problem while implementing a DSL where definitions were getting defined more than once in the code that he was generating. The problem is that the define function will not define the same name twice:
(define x 10)
(define x 12)
=> duplicate definition [...]
From what I can see, Emacs supports Unicode just fine. I had asked about it on the PLT discussion list, where it was explained that set-language-environment function will configure Emacs to use Unicode wherever possible. Here is the documentation:
(set-language-environment LANGUAGE-NAME)
Set up multi-lingual environment for using LANGUAGE-NAME. This sets the coding system priority and the default [...]
WordPress 2.7 is out. While there are a lot of great new features, there are two that piqued my interest:
Comment Threading
WordPress Upgrader
Comment threading is just that, comment threading. This is a useful feature that has always been provided by a plugin.
WordPress Upgrader “will give you the option of downloading, installing, and upgrading to the latest [...]
The idea that “It is what you know that you don’t know that matters most” has been coming up a lot lately. Here is one fellow’s take on it via this post:
I have the the distinction of being the “programming languages guru” here at Dobbs Code Talk. So what does this mean to me? It [...]
http://www.htdp.org/ is going to be down for some amount of time.
The servers at Brown which host it are having “issues”.
When it comes to learning, and “doing things well” for it, you can’t be lazy. You simply can not be lazy.
You won’t get away with it. Eventually you will screw up. Maybe you will catch it, and maybe you won’t. Maybe it won’t matter to anyone else or maybe it will. The only thing that [...]
While reading this article, it occurred to me that one ought to approach LaTeX coding much as one would code in any other language: re-use whenever possible.
Aspiring TeXnicians should get comfortable with searching for packages that contain the desired functionality, and using them, rather than starting from scratch each time.
Perhaps this is something of [...]
Although Subversive is the official Eclipse Subversion provider, the plugin itself doesn’t behave very well. In particular, it is impossible to uninstall it (v0.7) using the “Software Updates” dialog. The only option is to delete the jar files yourself (in 2001 I remember hoping that soon, we wouldn’t have to do stuff like this). Here [...]