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archivesWatA pretty funny video by Gary Bernhardt on some surprising behaviour in Ruby and JavaScript. I think Wat as a term of art for this phenomenon is quite appropriate. There's also a follow-up blog post by Adam Iley explaining some of the behaviours in JS seen in that video, if anyone wants to understand the underlying semantics behind these behaviours. Since we're all PL enthusiasts here, I expect everyone here will have their own lessons to take from this 4 minute video. Myself, it seems a perfect example of the dangers of implicit conversions and overloading. Stuff like this makes we want to crawl back to OCaml where overloading is forbidden. Interactive Tutorial of the Sequent CalculusInteractive Tutorial of the Sequent Calculus by Edward Z. Yang.
The tool behind this nice tutorial is Logitext. By Manuel J. Simoni at 2012-05-31 14:48 | Fun | Javascript | Logic/Declarative | Teaching & Learning | Theory | 28 comments | other blogs | 19347 reads
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