Code Golf: My Thought Process on “Saving Time”

My week was going so well. I moved into a new apartment that cut my commute time by 2/3, and I found an unsecured network accessible from within the confines of my apartment. Nothing else to do, I was expecting to get some good work done on one of my Lisp projects. My friend Steve [...]

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Learning Lisp Through Examples: XHTML Generation

I’ve learned a subset of Common Lisp that is large enough to start writing programs. This uncovered a small problem: how do I know I’m doing it right? Lisp is an old language, and there are ancient conventions and standards written deep in the caverns of MIT.
Fortunately for me, the internet is best used to [...]

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Norvig, Atwood, and Comments

Steve McConnell on Comments
Jeff Atwood recently wrote an article on comments in source code. He discusses a few different approaches to commenting a Newton’s method square root function, and describes the pros and cons. His reasoning was (unsurprisingly) influenced by Steve McConnell.
Good code is its own best documentation. As you’re about to add a comment, [...]

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