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A reader asks If I conditionally load a perl module, do those module variables get passed to the whole perl script. if ( some_test ) { ...

A Haskell neophyte at $WORK talked about writing a craps simulator as a learning exercise. The rules , limiting consideration to pass-line...

My five-year-old daughter is learning to read. I made flash cards for us to practice phonics and recognition, and I wrote this simple app ...

On a Windows machine, I upgraded to ghc-6.10.3 and was in the process of building and installing libraries from hackageDB , Haskell's C...

A coworker asked if I knew of a way to convert batches of hundreds of street addresses to lat/lons. The Geo::Google module on CPAN looked p...

With the Cabal build and packaging system for Haskell, add a simple test program to your build with a couple of easy steps. First, add the...

Say you want to call the following C function from Haskell: The parameter tarray is a pointer to an array of floats. From C, you'd use...

With Eclipse 3.4.2 (Ganymede), Google Web Toolkit, and JDK 1.6.0_14, the debugger seemed to ignore my breakpoints while running the hosted-m...

Sally suggested the title quote has a dynamic equivalent in C “and could be even more obfuscated!” What do you think? #include <stdio.h...

On Haskell-Cafe, Murray asked about loading objects associated with FFI imports in ghci . FFI is Haskell's Foreign Function Interface ...

A coworker called this morning wanting to know how to get a list of files that do not contain the text 'Program complete' on any li...

Carey's been learning functional programming with F#, and as a learning exercise he solved in F# Project Euler's Problem 1 . Consi...

At work, we're evaluating Safari Books Online . I knew they offered more than only O'Reilly titles, so I hoped to find Scott Chacon...

In comp.lang.lisp, Ken Tilton relayed a fun exercise involving a two-tiered list of pet populations, selections, and an unusual sort order....

Consider a (truncated) output from vmstat on AIX: 2031616 memory pages 1953185 lruable pages 935166 free pages 1 memory pool...

Bo hit me with the 25 random songs meme. Who wants to push buttons when you can write a program? #! /usr/bin/perl use warnings; use stric...

Say you're playing 7-card stud and are dealt rolled-up deuces. If you see the case deuce as someone else's door, what is the probab...

At the end of September and beginning of October, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on a proposed bailo "rescue" plan for po...

Another followup to my earlier post about searching for word ladders , this time using Haskell ! This blog post is a Haskell program, writ...