Elf Sternberg
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Archive for January, 2018
24Jan
Parsing with derivatives, naive Python edition!
Posted by Elf Sternberg as programming, python
Introduction I’ve been trying to grok Matt Might’s Parsing With Derivatives for a while, and one of the better, clearer explanations for it that I found is Yehonathan Sharvit’s Clojure version. Since Clojure isn’t a language I know very well, if at all, although I do know some Scheme, I decided to try and re-implement […]
11Jan
Google Go: Fischer Price’s My First Programming Language.
Posted by Elf Sternberg as Uncategorized
On Monday, work announced that we would be adopting Google Go as a third official internal language. Most software houses have two official languages: a highly demanding systems language with strong performance and memory guarantees, and an easy-to-write scripting languages with mediocre performance and few memory guarantees, so a third language was a bit unusual. […]
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