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nat-418 / why-tcl.md
Last active March 30, 2026 09:31
Why Tcl?

Why Tcl?

Introduction

I use [Tcl] as my scripting language of choice, and recently someone asked me why. This article is an attempt to answer that question.

Ousterhout's dichotomy claims that there are two general categories of programming languages:

@baryluk
baryluk / plan9-run.sh
Last active January 26, 2026 16:02
Plan 9 in qemu / 9front in qemu
#!/bin/bash
wget -c https://9front.org/iso/9front-9442.0e66f87316e571f7edf5274369ec69a5905507aa.amd64.iso.gz
gunzip -k 9front-9442.0e66f87316e571f7edf5274369ec69a5905507aa.amd64.iso.gz
if ! [ -f plan9.raw ]; then
qemu-img create plan9.raw 10G
fi
exec qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm \
-smp $(nproc) \
-m $((8*1024)) \
@carld
carld / lambda3.rkt
Last active August 15, 2017 11:13
self-evaluating functional Lisp / Scheme interpreter without define, letrec, let, set etc
#lang racket
;
; A self-evaluating Lisp interpreter implemented without define, letrec, let
;
; Copyright (C) 2017 A. Carl Douglas
;
; without current-namespace, this racket error occurred:
; ?: function application is not allowed;
; no #%app syntax transformer is bound in:
@adolfopa
adolfopa / hof.f
Created February 10, 2017 23:36
Implementation of some higher order functions in Forth
: -range ( a-addr1 u -- a-addr2 a-addr1 )
cells over + ;
: range ( a-addr1 u -- a-addr1 a-addr2)
-range swap ;
: map! ( xt a-addr u -- )
range ?do i @ over execute i ! cell +loop ;
: foldl ( xt w1 a-addr u2 -- w2 )
@alanpeabody
alanpeabody / my_app.ex
Last active February 19, 2025 16:29
Websockets in Elixir with Cowboy and Plug
defmodule MyApp do
use Application
def start(_type, _args) do
import Supervisor.Spec, warn: false
children = [
Plug.Adapters.Cowboy.child_spec(:http, MyApp.Router, [], [
dispatch: dispatch
])
@ohanhi
ohanhi / frp.md
Last active May 7, 2026 01:30
Learning FP the hard way: Experiences on the Elm language

Learning FP the hard way: Experiences on the Elm language

by Ossi Hanhinen, @ohanhi

with the support of Futurice 💚.

Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Editorial note

@lukechampine
lukechampine / a.c
Created October 19, 2014 01:00
a.c (with a.h expanded)
#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<sys/mman.h>
typedef void V;typedef int I;typedef double F;typedef unsigned char C,*S;typedef long L;
#define O printf
#define R return
#define I(a...) if(a)
#define W(a...) while(a)
@doitian
doitian / README.md
Last active July 11, 2018 15:22
Erlang parse transform

Tips about implementing parse_transform

@tsiege
tsiege / The Technical Interview Cheat Sheet.md
Last active May 6, 2026 15:35
This is my technical interview cheat sheet. Feel free to fork it or do whatever you want with it. PLEASE let me know if there are any errors or if anything crucial is missing. I will add more links soon.

ANNOUNCEMENT

I have moved this over to the Tech Interview Cheat Sheet Repo and has been expanded and even has code challenges you can run and practice against!






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@yantonov
yantonov / install-ghc-ubuntu.md
Last active June 11, 2020 09:20
How to install latest GHC from source + latest stack + cabal + cabal-install on ubuntu

How to install GHC from source + latest stack + cabal + cabal-install on ubuntu

for your convinience this instuction is available as:
gist
git repo

preferred way install stack than install ghc

stack (package manager and build tool, preferrered way to manage dependencies)

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