(Haskell for people with jobs.) Last summer, one of the books which silently judged me from my shelf, collecting dust, was Elements of ML Programming by Jeffrey Ullman. I avoided reading a lot of CS stuff then—mainly because I was programming at work and didn't feel like
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Read moreAt the end of the year, I always put some thoughts down in one of my notebooks. Writing things out helps me focus on them, and I figured it would be nice to do it on my blog this year, especially since no one reads this anyway.
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An elegant weapon for a more civilized age; or, why RPN is the coolest thing since sliced silicon.
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