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Thursday, 2 October 2025
DS Hell: Nu as a powerful data DSL
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HTML HTML is the Domain Specific Language (DSL) that really has taken over the world. It is meant to be used as semantic markup, e.g <e...
Thursday, 28 August 2025
Two Kinds of Shells
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Two Different Command-line Shells The Unix shell The first Unix shell was the Thompson Shell from 1973 which already looks very familiar ...
Thursday, 29 September 2016
A Modest Alternative II: Taming stdio's scanf
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The Ugly Brother My favourite Irish joke (and I'm Irish enough to tell it) concerns a posh gent who is lost in Dublin. He asks a byst...
Saturday, 9 April 2016
stdio or iostreams? - A Modest Alternative
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An Awkward Choice The standard C++ iostreams library is generally easier to use for output than stdio, if you don't particularly care...
stdio or iostreams? - A Modest Alternative
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An Awkward Choice The standard C++ iostreams library is generally easier to use for output than stdio, if you don't particularly care...
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Sunday, 7 June 2015
The Flub Paradox
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Blub and Flub Paul Graham's classic essay Beating the Averages is well worth re-reading. It is the story of how, twenty years ago, P...
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Sunday, 31 May 2015
What can C++ Libraries Learn from Lua?
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The Convenience of Text Pattern Matching const char *text = "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think \"...
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