Lambda the Ultimate

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Forum topic	Best maintainable evaluation strategy? Yes, it is... by Ray Dillinger call-by-name by Ray Dillinger	tkirchner	2013-03-31 18:09
Forum topic	Type dispatch on continuations is isomorphic to type dispatch on calls. Why therefore is it considered "unsound?"	Ray Dillinger	2013-03-31 08:49
Forum topic	Seeking thoughtful criticisms of functional programming and languages a while ago, I wrote a brief on Scheme vs. Common Lisp. by Ray Dillinger Ordinary programmers are smart enough, with the right context. by Ray Dillinger	scottmcl	2013-03-31 00:40
Forum topic	general thread model motivations? undead continuations, continued... by Ray Dillinger Oh, alright, since you insist.... by Ray Dillinger You are correct... by Ray Dillinger Why stacks grow "upward" in my mind. by Ray Dillinger continuation as reified "return". by Ray Dillinger It's not so much that they never speak to one another... by Ray Dillinger Um, what? by Ray Dillinger It doesn't. by Ray Dillinger Well, that's exactly what this model strives to avoid. by Ray Dillinger agreed about callstacks.... by Ray Dillinger ...	Rys McCusker	2013-03-25 16:21
Forum topic	syntax and nesting: Lispy or Algol'ish? Well, okay... I guess I've reached a decision. by Ray Dillinger implications, a different way. by Ray Dillinger Um, no? by Ray Dillinger Oh ... lists are collections. by Ray Dillinger Right.... by Ray Dillinger Syntax... by Ray Dillinger Hmm. Now considering multi-arg dispatch methods.... by Ray Dillinger	Ray Dillinger	2013-03-15 18:02
Forum topic	Looking for a little advice with implementing recursion. Joke... by Ray Dillinger Recursion... by Ray Dillinger	Clarkd	2013-03-12 08:59
Forum topic	Scheme language conundrum regarding delay and force. Yeah but why would you do that? by Ray Dillinger promise-executing? by Ray Dillinger exceptions considered harmful. by Ray Dillinger Continuations make it very by Ray Dillinger There are three principled versions of 'force' to consider. by Ray Dillinger The way I see it... by Ray Dillinger	Ray Dillinger	2013-03-10 11:15
Forum topic	Why say Actor Model instead of message passing? CS has a perfectly by Ray Dillinger I used to feel that... by Ray Dillinger	Clarkd	2013-03-10 08:48
Forum topic	A programming editor to replace emacs? This is true, but none of it by Ray Dillinger Oops. by Ray Dillinger	Ray Dillinger	2013-03-02 13:04
Forum topic	What will programming look like in 2020? I believe that you are right. by Ray Dillinger Invalid subexpression in a valid operation. by Ray Dillinger Surely not ALL calculations... by Ray Dillinger why not? by Ray Dillinger Units could improve programming. by Ray Dillinger Of course you have to tell it what the requirements are. by Ray Dillinger We should let machines make all the choices they're better at. by Ray Dillinger	Sean McDirmid	2013-03-01 03:45
Forum topic	Library maintenance - key to language success? Each case has its uses. Each has its problems. by Ray Dillinger Mediocrity is in a perverse way a hard-won success story. by Ray Dillinger I think people are too buggy for wiki style to work. by Ray Dillinger	John Nagle	2013-02-07 10:39
Forum topic	Numbers and how to represent them. Trying to make it easier to reason about numbers. by Ray Dillinger Okay, you're right about that. by Ray Dillinger Square root function.... by Ray Dillinger Both, but both can be marginally improved.... by Ray Dillinger It happens in most successive approximation algorithms. by Ray Dillinger I have... by Ray Dillinger There aren't multiple versions of the operations. by Ray Dillinger Yes, normalizing. by Ray Dillinger	Ray Dillinger	2013-02-03 20:13
Forum topic	Units and Numerical niceties. The difference between angle and dimensionless quantities. by Ray Dillinger	Ray Dillinger	2013-01-31 16:27
Forum topic	Import Systems Well, We know at least this about how to NOT do it. by Ray Dillinger	Kay Schluehr	2013-01-14 15:05
Story	Ada 2012 Language Standard Approved by ISO It's easy for an instruction set to avoid this attack.... by Ray Dillinger	Ehud Lamm	2013-01-13 11:54
Story	Rob Pike on Go at Google True excellence in tooling requires language support. by Ray Dillinger Well of course it is. by Ray Dillinger A copy of itoa in net by Ray Dillinger	Ehud Lamm	2013-01-09 22:52
Forum topic	Supporting a spectrum from whole program to separate compilation to aid in efficient program generation You're right that separate by Ray Dillinger	scottmcl	2012-12-25 21:32
Forum topic	Entanglement and Import by specification.	Ray Dillinger	2012-12-08 03:26
Forum topic	Learnable Programming I agree with you. by Ray Dillinger You're absolutely right. by Ray Dillinger I thought he was pretty obviously text-blind. by Ray Dillinger The best FP debugger I ever used... by Ray Dillinger	dmbarbour	2012-11-29 21:57
Story	Equality Saturation: A New Approach to Optimization Yay! Impressive. by Ray Dillinger	neelk	2012-11-28 20:26
Forum topic	Libraries suck Infrastructure support for contracts capabilities and unit tests by Ray Dillinger Getting imports right is hard. by Ray Dillinger Yeah, and? by Ray Dillinger Immature libraries do in fact suck. by Ray Dillinger	Kartik Agaram	2012-11-26 22:16
Forum topic	A bug with collapsed views, and some thinking aloud "recent comments" link on the left side. by Ray Dillinger	Kartik Agaram	2012-11-16 11:09
Forum topic	Minimally typed programs? the type of characters and strings is 'text'. by Ray Dillinger Quite simply, actually. by Ray Dillinger Constraints and restrictions, as opposed to type. by Ray Dillinger Using interfaces to check the definitions of types. by Ray Dillinger You could, perhaps. by Ray Dillinger One problem with that.... by Ray Dillinger	Mihai Christodorescu	2012-11-12 13:48
Forum topic	Incremental computation with divide and conquer memoization Ideally, all "optimization" decisions should be tested. by Ray Dillinger	Robbert van Dalen	2012-11-10 17:46
Forum topic	How to handle errors This is an objection, not skepticism. by Ray Dillinger Use static analysis to type call sites. by Ray Dillinger experimentally, I find... by Ray Dillinger Well spoken. by Ray Dillinger Locality of reference makes sharing relatively simple by Ray Dillinger assigning an errval to a variable... by Ray Dillinger	Mats	2012-11-09 05:58
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