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Monthly Archives: February 2007
A Haskell regular expression tutorial
Someone showed up on #haskell yesterday, asking how to use regular expressions. This isn’t a completely straightforward question to answer. While Haskell’s regexp libraries provide the same functionality you’ll find in Perl, Python, and Java, they provide a rich and…
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A quick programmer’s look at NVIDIA’s CUDA
I spent a while this evening reading through the documentation for the beta release of NVIDIA’s CUDA GPGPU system. My motivation for this was that nvcc, the CUDA compiler, is based on a code drop of the EkoPath compiler, which…
Haskell Cabal, now with extra crunchy RPM goodness
The Haskell community has a very nice implementation-independent mechanism for building libraries and applications, called Cabal. I spent a few hours over the past couple of days hacking on Cabal to add the ability to build RPM packages. You can…
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Esh, the fabulous, forgotten Scheme implementation
In 1995, I moved from Ireland to the San Francisco Bay Area, because I’d been offered a job that promised to combine Unix and Scheme hacking. The prospect tickled me pink. At Sun Microsystems, the SPARC design team used a…
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Anatol Rapaport on argument
Here’s a wonderful excerpt from a book review written by Daniel Dennett, in which he paraphrases Rapaport on how to argue constructively. Serious argument depends on mutual respect, and this is often hard to engender when disagreements turn vehement. The…
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