The other week I was working on my compilers homework – the semantic analysis part is an object-oriented nightmare. Something called the visitor pattern to traverse trees and do weird stuff. It made me want to curl up in a fetal position in the corner, rocking back and forth in a padded room, while mumbling [...]
About two weeks ago I watched a TED talk on the battle between one’s present and future self. The idea being that a lot of our problems can be summed up to this: Your present self is here, he wants cool things, your future self is greatly affected by these decisions, but he can’t do [...]
I’m taking a sabbatical week over the holidays. This week’s posts will serve as a sort of report of what I got up to the previous day instead of the usual schedule – wish me luck that I achieve even half of what I’d like to. As I sit here slowly sipping on my tea [...]
A couple of days ago I decided that doing my graduation thesis on a topic that, when suggested, brought a sparkle to my mentor’s eye and made him suggest I might want to think about picking a co-mentor just wasn’t hard enough – so I decided to do the whole thing in Haskell. I want [...]
For a long time now I’ve been completely in love with functional programming to the point that I write functional-style code even in run of the mill normal languages. There are many reasons I like functional code, the paper Why functional programming matters, by John Hughes sums up my opinion perfectly. A few days ago [...]
Image via Wikipedia This is the first post in the series of How <x> changed my style where I shall talk about tools and events that had a significant impact on my style of doing things. If you happen to like this idea, I would be very happy if you could help it spread like [...]
