callmecosmas

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by callmecosmas 13y ago
Haskell seems pretty left brained to me!
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by callmecosmas 13y ago
Actually at the bottom of page 2 of Maynard's preprint he states: "We emphasize that the above result does not incorporate any of the technology used by Zhang to establish the existence of bounded gaps between primes." So it
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by callmecosmas 13y ago
Why not F#?
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by callmecosmas 13y ago
I think the main difference is that SLIME is for Common Lisp and Geiser is for Guile/Racket. More than that, I don't know enough about SLIME to say.
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by callmecosmas 13y ago
Haskell certainly has a big learning curve, but the experience will be much more rewarding than learning Clojure or F#. Haskell is a (relatively) uncompromising language and Clojure and F# are really just trying to take some of the features
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by callmecosmas 13y ago
You don't actually need the second lambda since all Haskell functions take one argument, so you can just do f = \x y -> x + y and you'll have an implicit lambda before the y.
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by callmecosmas 13y ago
Python implementations do not have tail call optimization but that doesn't really have anything to do with functional programming. Common Lisp has mutable data structures by default and actually I think one of the most elegant parts of CL i
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by callmecosmas 13y ago
I'm a grad student that works in Racket and fwiw I find that I prefer emacs for editing but DrRacket for testing and debugging. It has great tools for documentation, locating errors and macro expansion and of course it all works out of the
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by callmecosmas 13y ago
If you're going to try Scheme and you're scared of emacs/vim, I'd suggest Racket. It's got a nice IDE (DrRacket) and a lot of the community is focused on teaching so there's a lot of resources for newbies http://racket-lang.org/learning.ht
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by callmecosmas 13y ago
I'm an emacs lover myself, but for that use-case it seems like all you need is rlwrap: http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/rlwrap/#rlwrap
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by callmecosmas 13y ago
Racket allows for (), [] or {} in code and it seems that in practice [] is used to distinguish some syntactic forms that have nested parens from normal function calls such as the let and cond forms. So instead of (cond ((...) (...))
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by callmecosmas 14y ago
I mean I can see how that would be a sexual joke given a certain tone of voice.
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by callmecosmas 14y ago
Pretty much: https://github.com/imkevinxu/faithinhumanity/blob/master/fai...
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by callmecosmas 14y ago
Cool work but doesn't mix well with text selection. I'm not into js but I wonder if it would be easy to distinguish between clicking on one spot and clicking and dragging for say copy-pasting.