Zombie-like, 6.001 rises from the dead to threaten students again. Unlike a zombie, though, it’s moving quite a bit faster than it did the first time. Like the original, don’t walk into the class expecting that it will teach you Scheme; instead, it attempts to teach thought patterns for computer science, and the structure and [...]
This post in comp.lang.scheme brings up a question that inevitably everyone asks. Suppose the answer is obvious but John summed it up well: Well, if you interpret (apply + some-list) and (apply * some-other-list) as left-folds, then a starting point is needed, something to begin accumulating from. The identity is the only value that works [...]
SchemaSpy is a Java-based tool that analyzes the metadata of a schema in a database and generates a visual representation of it in a browser-displayable format. It lets you click through the hierarchy of database tables via child and parent table relationships as represented by both HTML links and entity-relationship diagrams. It’s also designed to [...]
GSL Shell is an interactive interface that gives access to the GSL numerical routines by using Lua, an easy to learn and powerful programming language. With GSL Shell you can access very easily the functions provided by the GSL library without the need of writing and compile a stand-alone C application. In addition the power [...]
The Little Schemer is now available on Google Books here. (via reddit)
When you want to evaluate code inside of DrScheme, you hit the F5 key and the entire editor buffer gets evaluated inside of a new REPL. Unlike Emacs, the ability to send the current expression, region, or buffer to the REPL isn’t available. It might sound constricting, but in practice it is very nice because [...]
Maintenance of the Tuareg mode for Emacs has been taken over by some Jane Street Capital folks and can be found here on OCamlCore. (via caml-list)
Here is how to ask Maven to generate Idea project files for you: mvn idea:idea -DjdkName=1.5 (via Maven)
While I haven’t watched these yet; they do sound interesting. (via dhess)