[ This is cross-posted from the Ocean of Awareness blog. ]
an article
titled "What if Mass Storage were Free?".
Costs of mass storage were showing signs
that they might fall dramatically.
Copeland, as a thought exercise, took this trend to its extreme.
Among other things, he predicted that deletion would become
unnecessary, and in fact, undesirable…
The influential
Design Patterns
book
lays out 23 patterns for programming.
One of them, the Interpreter Pattern, is rarely used.
Steve Yegge puts it a bit more strikingly -- he says
that the book contains
22
patter…
[ This is cross-posted from the new home of the Ocean of Awareness blog. ]
The latest version of
Marpa takes parsing "whipitupitude" one step further.
You can now go straight from
a BNF description of your language,
and an input string,
to an abstract syntax tree (AST).
To illu…