The question reminded me of a passage in Plauger's *The Standard C Library*
(1992):
"The library [math.h] doesn't try to distinguish +0 from -0. IEEE 754
worries quite
a bit about this distinction. All the architectures I mentioned above can
represent
both flavors of zero. But I have tro
To me, one of the redeeming qualities of units in Racket is that they make
"the tent" bigger. Modules may usually be the right way in Racket, but the
grace of Racket is that modules are not "The one true way" because the
Racket community tends to eschew the OTW concept when it comes to computer
I use Emacs because org-mode provides Babel and Babel lets me program in a
literate style. In Emacs I can write literate code irrespective of
language and I enjoy literate programming more than
illiterate/unlitterate/conventional programming by a wide margin. Emacs
org-mode lets me convert my
My child is a High School junior and has some interest (and some healthy
disinterest) in pursuing computer science/engineering/programming/etc.
As a Lisphead and in the interest of presenting a diversity of options if
it winds up being computer etcetera, I am curious if there are an
Junior/Comm
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