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• Jul 22, 2020

  Implementing yes(1) in Racket

  As an in-retrospect-inevitable consequence of my recent post about implementing yes(1) in Haskell, I found myself itching to try out the implementation in a whole bunch of my less-familiar languages. A language that I’ve been slowly picking up lately is Racket, a Lisp (based on Scheme) designed for designing and implementing programming languages.¹ It’s the first Lisp I’ve properly learned (after being scared away from Common Lisp), and it’s fun to play around with — the syntax makes for a pleasant break from typical C-family language syntax. A break was just what I needed,² so let’s implement yes(1) in Racket!

  1. To those interested in using Racket to implement programming languages, I highly recommend Matthew Butterick’s Beautiful Racket. ↩

  2. And a good friend nerd-sniped me. Again. ↩

• Jul 20, 2020

  coreutils in Haskell, Part I

  The first programming language I ever used was HTML. This was in the days where all-caps tag/attribute names were all the rage. My editor of choice? Notepad. HTML was satisfying to write because it offered immediately visible results, and it was just plain fun. I soon began perusing the plethora of learning materials available for HTML online and quickly discovered a technology called JavaScript that I was promised would provide my simple HTML pages with exciting dynamicity. Soon after, I discovered the marvelous technology CSS, and suddenly I could make pretty web pages with cool interactive effects. It was a period of joyful experimentation.

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