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jvranish

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    Comment #5325981

    Those are all great languages. Haskell by no means has a monopoly on mind expanding features. But I think that the enforced purity of Haskell along with laziness and the powerful t…

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    Comment #4732495

    I use clang with a -Wall and -Wextra, which will complain about all sorts of stuff I generally want to know about, including unused variables (I think gcc does the same?). For the …

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    Comment #4732458

    Actually, if you look closely you'll notice that not other language lets you do this either (except through an 'eval' or similar). What I think you actually mean is that this still…

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    Comment #4732428

    It's still Turing complete (though that's not saying much really). You can always grow the stack more :P

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    Comment #3889941

    Do you know of good resource for how to compute minimax polynomials that approximate transcendental functions? My Google foo appears to be failing me.

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    Comment #3889237

    If your goal is accuracy, you are absolutely correct. But in the instances where I've wanted to implement my own versions of transcendental math functions, accuracy was actually pr…