schot | 3 years ago | on: History of Zero-Based Months?
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schot | 4 years ago | on: Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition
How does this compare to LilyPond? I'm surprised it isn't mentioned at all, since from a first glance the notation looks very similar.
[0]: http://lilypond.org/
schot | 4 years ago | on: Functional Programming in OCaml
The Coursera course Programming Languages (Part A and B) by Dan Grossman teaches FP (and more) using SML and Racket. I enjoyed this course a lot. I would not recommend it for kids, but it should be great for students with some limited programming experience.
[1]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages
[2]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages-part-b
schot | 5 years ago | on: Accidentally quadratic: When Python is faster than C++
A minor historical note on this: the original title of Dijkstra's text was "A Case Against the Goto Statement" and it was the Communications of the ACM editor (Niklaus Wirth) that changed it[0].
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This Twitter thread from November 2020[1] and its HackerNews discussion[2] seem relevant.
1: https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1329228419628998665
2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25195287