This page will be edited over the coming months to serve as a summary of ideas about dataflow programming which I will have discussed in blog posts.
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Latest Posts on Vorlaths Blog- Math: Why There Is Disagreement on Cantor's Diagonal ArgumentI wanted to put this out there for a while for note keeping purposes, but beware the current topic. It's one that's bound to have you be called a nutjob, and if not, then you'll be calling others a nutjob. Cantor was sent to the insane asylum on many occasions because of his obsession with infinity. Specifically, trying to prove the continuum […]
- Contemporary OptimizationsIn the past, it was very clear what people had to say on optimizations. Early on, it was ok to optimize everything because there was so little memory that everything was already what you could call an optimization. Saying you were optimizing something was sometimes seen as redundant or something that should have been done already. Then as memory got larger, […]
- Finding least distance from equidistant points on a circle to random points on circle.I've been trying to solve this problem for a very long time now. I finally found the solution and this is one of those times where once you have the answer, you feel pretty stupid. That's a good thing... sorta. It means the answer was extremely simple. On the flip side, it means you missed something obvious.Ok, here's the problem at hand. Say […]
- InterningIf you're a C++ programmer, then you should be well aware of smart pointers or reference counting. Instead of dealing directly with a pointer, you use a container that also has a shared reference counter. When the counter reaches zero, then it deletes the object that the pointer is referencing.So far, so good. One problem that comes up is that sometimes […]
- Math: Why There Is Disagreement on Cantor's Diagonal Argument
- Latest LtU Posts
- Common Lisp: The Untold StoryCommon Lisp: The Untold Story, by Kent Pitman. A nice paper about the history of my favorite lightweight dynamic language. This paper summarizes a talk given at “Lisp50@OOPSLA,” the 50th Anniversary of Lisp workshop, Monday, October 20, 2008, an event co-located with the OOPSLA’08 in Nashville, TN, in which I offered my personal, subjective account of how I […]
- Evaluating the Design of the R LanguageFrom our recent discussion on R, I thought this paper deserved its own post (ECOOP final version) by Floreal Morandat, Brandon Hill, Leo Osvald, and Jan Vitek; abstract: R is a dynamic language for statistical computing that combines lazy functional features and object-oriented programming. This rather unlikely linguistic cocktail would probably never have b […]
- Why and How People Use RCompelling lecture by John Cook Abstract: R is a strange, deeply flawed language that nevertheless has an enthusiastic and rapidly growing user base. What about R accounts for its popularity in its niche? What can language designers learn from R's success?
- Iverson's _A Programming Language_Online. It's never too late to familiarize yourself with the classics.
- Common Lisp: The Untold Story
- Latest ACM Queue Posts
- DSL for the UninitiatedDomain-specific languages bridge the semantic gap in programming
- Passing a Language through the Eye of a NeedleHow the embeddability of Lua impacted its design
- Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33!To move forward with programming languages we need to break free from the tyranny of ASCII.
- The Ideal HPC Programming LanguageMaybe it's Fortran. Or maybe it just doesn't matter.
- DSL for the Uninitiated
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