Category Archives: Programming

Emacs as a C/C++ IDE

Posted on 2017-03-27 by jcs

This is another of a series of posts on how to use Emacs as a C/C++ IDE. I’m always seeing queries about how to do that so it’s worth another post on the subject. This time, I want to discuss … Continue reading →

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Starting with Scheme

Posted on 2017-02-18 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has an interesting post on using Scheme as a first language for CS instruction. That’s not a new idea, of course. MIT’s famed 6.001 course (Entry Level Computing) used Scheme and SICP for years. Their course was adopted … Continue reading →

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ESR Evaluates Go

Posted on 2017-02-17 by jcs

Last month I wrote about Eric Raymond’s (ESR) work on NTPsec and his comparison of Go and Rust with a view of replacing C with one of them as an implementation language. As part of his work on that comparison, … Continue reading →

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Rust vs. Go

Posted on 2017-01-19 by jcs

As most of you probably know, Eric Raymond (ESR) is part of an effort to rewrite the Network Time Protocol (NTP) suite to be smaller and more secure. You can follow the project’s progress on their blog. The NTP daemon … Continue reading →

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Zamansky Live Codes Advent of Code 2016 #2

Posted on 2016-12-08 by jcs

Mike Zamansky who is, after all, a teacher, demonstrates his coding technique by live coding the second exercise in the 2016 Advent of Code. He is coding in C++ because that’s what he’s teaching at the moment but even if, … Continue reading →

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C

Posted on 2016-10-10 by jcs

More and more often, these days, I see the opinion expressed that C is a dead, dangerous, stupid language and no one uses it anymore. For me, that’s like having someone start a discussion by saying ”As everyone knows the … Continue reading →

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An Example of pcase-lambda

Posted on 2016-09-22 by jcs

Over at the Emacs reddit, instant_sunshine has an example of using pcase-lambda. It’s not used very often but can be useful if you have to write functions that need to look inside Lisp objects. The documentation for pcase-lambda is a … Continue reading →

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Fundamentals

Posted on 2016-09-19 by jcs

So true and so often disregarded I felt like saying this. pic.twitter.com/mHJ1rENoX1 — Hisham (@hisham_hm) December 13, 2015 Hat tip to Karl Voit.

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Wisdom From Wilfred Hughes

Posted on 2016-09-06 by jcs

Some wisdom from Wilfred Hughes. I think this is right. Polyglot programmers are often very effective. They can take designs tested in one language and benefit another! — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) September 6, 2016

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Literate Programming with R

Posted on 2016-07-18 by jcs

Since I’ve been writing about literate programming lately, here’s a nice talk by Don Knuth on Literate Programming in R. Knuth begins his talk with an overview of several books that have been written using literate programming and discussing why … Continue reading →

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