Viewing profile — schot

"Why is day of the month 1-indexed but the month is 0-indexed in C?" This Twitter thread from November 2020[1] and its HackerNews discussion[2] seem relevant. 1: https://twitter.co…

How does this compare to LilyPond? I'm surprised it isn't mentioned at all, since from a first glance the notation looks very similar. [0]: http://lilypond.org/

The Coursera course Programming Languages (Part A and B) by Dan Grossman teaches FP (and more) using SML and Racket. I enjoyed this course a lot. I would not recommend it for kids,…

A minor historical note on this: the original title of Dijkstra's text was "A Case Against the Goto Statement" and it was the Communications of the ACM editor (Niklaus Wirth) that …