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Beware of the Turing tar-pit (2004) (raganwald.com)
67 points by sph 9 months ago | past | 27 comments
My favourite interview question (2006) (raganwald.com)
1 point by EndXA 10 months ago | past
John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language (2020) (raganwald.com)
144 points by warrenm on May 16, 2023 | past | 24 comments
Yes, JavaScript Is a Lisp (raganwald.com)
21 points by Akronymus on Jan 13, 2023 | past | 21 comments
High Performance JavaScript – Structural Sharing and Copy-on-Write (raganwald.com)
2 points by rosebay on Dec 17, 2022 | past
Mutual Recursion in Language (raganwald.com)
1 point by warrenm on Dec 1, 2022 | past
Mutual Recursion in Language (raganwald.com)
1 point by notmysql_ on Nov 28, 2022 | past
The Inner Osborne Effect (2021) (raganwald.com)
145 points by luu on Aug 15, 2022 | past | 42 comments
Are we Blub programmers? (2006) (raganwald.com)
36 points by andsoitis on Aug 14, 2022 | past | 83 comments
When FP? and When OOP? (raganwald.com)
2 points by tmfi on Feb 28, 2021 | past | 2 comments
Open Problems in Communication and Computation (1987) [pdf] (raganwald.com)
39 points by _zhqs on Feb 9, 2021 | past | 2 comments
Regular Expressions and Finite-State Recognizers (raganwald.com)
2 points by tosh on June 3, 2020 | past
Exploring Regular Expressions II: Regular Languages and Finite-State Automata (raganwald.com)
5 points by braythwayt on June 3, 2020 | past | 1 comment
The SNOBOL4 Programming Language [pdf] (raganwald.com)
20 points by fortran77 on May 29, 2020 | past | 6 comments
Remembering John Conway's FRACTRAN (raganwald.com)
84 points by braythwayt on May 11, 2020 | past | 14 comments
Exploring Regular Expressions and Finite-State Recognizers, Part I (raganwald.com)
3 points by braythwayt on Dec 18, 2019 | past
Enumerations, Denumerables, Recursion, and Infinity (raganwald.com)
4 points by braythwayt on March 11, 2019 | past
A Brutal Look at Balanced Parentheses, Computing Machines, and Pushdown Automata (raganwald.com)
146 points by braythwayt on Feb 22, 2019 | past | 77 comments
Why Are Mixins Considered Harmful? (2016) (raganwald.com)
2 points by apitman on Feb 5, 2019 | past
Alice and Bobbie and Sharleen and Dyck (raganwald.com)
2 points by IfOnlyYouKnew on Feb 3, 2019 | past
When FP? And When OOP? (2013) (raganwald.com)
147 points by ausjke on Jan 28, 2019 | past | 151 comments
An Informal Exploration of Structural Sharing and Copy-On-Write Semantics (raganwald.com)
3 points by braythwayt on Jan 14, 2019 | past
What's a Transducer? (raganwald.com)
3 points by drnewman on Nov 8, 2018 | past
Pattern Matching and Recursion (raganwald.com)
1 point by vgallur on Oct 26, 2018 | past
Ruby's Hashes and Perl's Autovivification, in JavaScript (raganwald.com)
1 point by fanf2 on Sept 18, 2018 | past
Ruby’s Hashes and Perl’s Autovivification, in JavaScript (raganwald.com)
36 points by braythwayt on Sept 17, 2018 | past | 22 comments
Why Y? Deriving the Y Combinator in JavaScript (raganwald.com)
200 points by braythwayt on Sept 10, 2018 | past | 71 comments
Deriving the Y Combinator and Sage Bird from the Mockingbird (raganwald.com)
1 point by tosh on Sept 4, 2018 | past
Deriving the Y Combinator and Sage Bird from the Mockingbird (raganwald.com)
7 points by ColinWright on Sept 4, 2018 | past
To Grok a Mockingbird (raganwald.com)
2 points by joeyespo on Sept 1, 2018 | past

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