Posts Tagged “programming”
Functional Programming with the Unix Command Line
by enum on June 25, 2009
I was pondering the unix command line the other day while reading sed & awk, and I came to the following revelation: variables aside, the unix command line is a lot like functional programming. Using the command line, you can (…)
Updating Rails on OS X
by enum on June 23, 2009
If you install XCode for OS X 10.5, it automatically comes with a version of rails. This is (generally) not the latest version however, and you must take a few steps to update it. First you need to update rubygems (…)
Scripting Languages
by enum on June 22, 2009
I just thought I’d share with you Random thoughts on scripting languages by Brian Kernighan. After reading this, I looked up the source code to the unix utility wc. The GNU wc program was written in C, and amounted to (…)
Learning Haskell
by enum on May 17, 2009
I have recently been continuing my journey with Haskell, the purely functional programming language. I had dabbled with it a little bit over the winter, but haven’t had much practice since then. It is my hope that over the summer (…)