pbewig

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   by pbewig 10y ago

   Regarding #2: I have a complete version of McCarthy's original evaluator at https://programmingpraxis.com/2011/11/01/rip-john-mccarthy/ , and it doesn't use a single mutation.
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   by pbewig 12y ago

   I translated to Scheme at my blog: http://programmingpraxis.com/2010/07/27/hamurabi-bas/ .
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   by pbewig 14y ago

   Use case for scripting that's not better satisfied by using a scripting language: Ed reads the entire file. If you need to move back and forth through the file, or move lines from one place to another, or reprocess the same line repeatedly,
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   by pbewig 15y ago

   I did this exercise on my blog at http://programmingpraxis.com/2009/02/27/mark-v-shaney/ .
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   by pbewig 16y ago

   Zoho (zoho.com) has an accounting system. I haven't used it, but I have used some of their other systems, and they seem to do a good job.
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   by pbewig 16y ago

   I almost always prefer some kind of balanced tree to a hash table, because no matter the original specifications, sometime during the development of a program I usually need the elements in order.
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   by pbewig 16y ago

   I recently did an exercise on cuckoo hashing at http://programmingpraxis.com/2011/02/01/cuckoo-hashing/ .
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   by pbewig 16y ago

   I may have spoken un-artfully, but there is an important point here that is being missed. I bet that every civil engineer, if asked at an interview, could explain the basic design of Galloping Gertie and the flaws that caused it to fail.
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   by pbewig 16y ago

   I recently did an exercise on Benford's Law on my blog: http://programmingpraxis.com/2010/10/26/benfords-law/ .
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    Fortieth anniversary of the factorization of F7(programmingpraxis.com)

    1 points by pbewig 16y ago|0 comments
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    by pbewig 16y ago

    Programming Praxis ( http://programmingpraxis.com ) provides a collection of etudes, updated weekly, for the education and enjoyment of the savvy programer. Although there is some math content (the current exercise uses the chinese remaind
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    by pbewig 16y ago

    programming Praxis ( http://programmingpraxis.com ) offers a series of exercises, similar to Project Euler, but with more emphasis on programming and less emphasis on mathematics. There are new exercises every Tuesday and Friday.
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    Novell Wins Again - Jury Rules Copyrights Didn't Go to SCO(groklaw.net)

    69 points by pbewig 16y ago|5 comments