pdexter

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Comment · 5 years ago
Haskell doesn't require top level type definitions.
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
How were the diagrams made?
Comment · 6 years ago
charles schwab did that up to about 4 or 5 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
Random question, but how did they get the source code highlighting in that doc?
Comment · 6 years ago
We're software developers after all.

I feel sad knowing that what I've trained for and my passion aren't helpful at all to fixing this crisis.

Comment · 6 years ago
That sounds more like an implementation detail, in most cases. By this metric Haskell wouldn't be a functional language.
Comment · 6 years ago
Is this automated?
Comment · 6 years ago
Sounds like datalog could fit this bill
Comment · 6 years ago
Interesting. Can you give an example of generic algorithms plus custom types, in practice? Off the top of my head I thought that any dynamic language or static language with good genetics would have this property, but maybe there's something that Julia does differently.
Comment · 6 years ago
Yeah I think rust has better defaults here.
Comment · 6 years ago

    *** Exception: Prelude.head: empty list
Comment · 6 years ago
C-- is one of the stages of its compilation to a binary IIRC. I wouldn't say it "can transpile to C--", as if C-- is an optional target which the user then does something else with.
Comment · 6 years ago

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