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Regarding #2: I have a complete version of McCarthy's original evaluator at https://programmingpraxis.com/2011/11/01/rip-john-mccarthy/ , and it doesn't use a single mutation.

I translated to Scheme at my blog: http://programmingpraxis.com/2010/07/27/hamurabi-bas/ .

Use case for scripting that's not better satisfied by using a scripting language: Ed reads the entire file. If you need to move back and forth through the file, or move lines from …

I did this exercise on my blog at http://programmingpraxis.com/2009/02/27/mark-v-shaney/ .

Zoho (zoho.com) has an accounting system. I haven't used it, but I have used some of their other systems, and they seem to do a good job.

I almost always prefer some kind of balanced tree to a hash table, because no matter the original specifications, sometime during the development of a program I usually need the el…

I recently did an exercise on cuckoo hashing at http://programmingpraxis.com/2011/02/01/cuckoo-hashing/ .

I may have spoken un-artfully, but there is an important point here that is being missed. I bet that every civil engineer, if asked at an interview, could explain the basic design …

I recently did an exercise on Benford's Law on my blog: http://programmingpraxis.com/2010/10/26/benfords-law/ .

Programming Praxis ( http://programmingpraxis.com ) provides a collection of etudes, updated weekly, for the education and enjoyment of the savvy programer. Although there is some …

programming Praxis ( http://programmingpraxis.com ) offers a series of exercises, similar to Project Euler, but with more emphasis on programming and less emphasis on mathematics. …