A programming language is an artificial language designed to express computations that can be performed by a machine.
I've found that lots of people use the words closure and block interchangeably. Most of these people can't explain what …
programming-languages computer-science theory language-theoryI am looking at messing around with creating a functional reactive framework at some point. I have read quite a …
functional-programming programming-languages semantics frpJust out of curiosity, how does Makefile know that a file changed (and then recompile it)? Is it up to …
makefile programming-languagesI would like to create my own programming language. Maybe not exactly a programming language from scratch but maybe base …
compiler-construction programming-languages language-design bison yaccThere are languages other than Lisp (ruby, scala) that say they use REPL (Read, Eval, Print, Loop), but it is …
scala programming-languages lisp read-eval-print-loopI can't wrap my head around what the Wikipedia article or the answer here say. Can someone explain Rule 110 in …
programming-languages turing-completeI wondered if there is a programming language which compiles to machine code/binary (not bytecode then executed by a …
programming-languages typing static-typing dynamic-typingwhat are the ideas of preventing buffer overflow attacks? and i heard about Stackguard,but until now is this problem …
security programming-languages buffer-overflowI'm coming from a statically-typed background and investigating functional programming, but I'm not entirely excited about dynamic typing. I'm curious …
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