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This goes at least as far back as anaphoric macros: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphoric_macro .

Just curious who pays for cleaning up the debris after one if these landings.

The part where he asserts indexing should start at zero is this: > Adhering to convention a) yields, when starting with subscript 1, the subscript range 1 ≤ i "A nicer range." This…

That is just untrue. Compilers tend to generate better code for imperative algorithms because current architectures implement a fundamentally imperative model. Yes, "sufficiently a…

Knuth's original article is a good starting point: http://literateprogramming.com/knuthweb.pdf . Knuth's Programming Pearls entries are good reading as well.

I was playing around with SPARC assembly and realised that implementing coroutine linkage can turn out quite elegant. It kind of resembles Knuth's MMIX.

I've had OK experiences with alibris. Based in UK though.

Someone on the D subreddit pointed that out as well. I didn't know it was available at compile time. I'll update the post. Thanks.

That's right. The Cobol version has its own beauty because it's built into the language. Also, this is my TIL nugget of the day. Thanks :)

Where I use D's metaprogramming capabilities to generate a binary search function using Shar's algorithm.

Glad to hear that. Brian Kernighan said that he was thinking of updating the AWK book on numberphile last year. Looking forward to it as well :)

That's a nice project idea. Made me try it in common lisp which comes with a compiler built in. It's fairly doable. The only downside is the big executable sizes for SBCL and CCL, …

I think GNU grep does something similar. When it has a fixed patter it uses Boyer-Moore [1]. [1]: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Aug...

Nice work. I don't think people appreciate just how much work has been put into this project.

Thank you!

> Would there be enough interest in having these letters in searchable form to motivate the effort? Yes, please :). Esp. Dijkstra's letter from the 5th of Apr '79. It's a bit hard …

I cannot upvote you enough.

Yes, that is do-able, if they want to make this change.

I didn't say constructor arguments don't have tuple semantics :). In OCaml tuples are a "unit", i.e. you can't use (,) as an operator. In that sense they match with the constructor…

Nice to see that OCaml is getting so much love at facebook. Unfortunately, adding a new syntax that's almost OCaml, but not quite, doesn't seem like such a great idea. While it mig…