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| | Trying to implement some algorithms using Cairo 1.0
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| | The esoteric programming language Velato uses music as its source code. The first note of a composition establishes a "command root" note, and the intervals that follow specify instructions. The command root can be changed between statements, and the notes that make up a chord can be interpreted in a specified order, so there's some latitude to help a composition sound "musical." This program produces the output "Hello, World": Here's what that sounds like: A few other musical languages: Fugue, VenetianScript, Yet Another Musical Esolang.
| | largedatabank.com
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| | I heard a lot of good things about Mike Okasaki's Purely Functional Data Structures at UChicago, but didn't ever take the time to check it out. Lately I've missed the heady joy of reading and writing code in a strongly typed functional programming language like Standard ML, so when one of my coworkers at Knewton mentioned he was going to read the book I decided to get a copy for myself.
| | lenholgate.com
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| [AI summary] A developer discusses the challenges of refactoring and analyzing poor source code written by an original developer and advises on a systematic approach to understanding and fixing it.