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My students' effort in Haskell and Rust

I encouraged and mentored a bunch of my students to learn Haskell and Rust by re-implementing csvkit (https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.2/). They started in late February 2020 and amidst all the lock down, college academic work, they have made decent progress.Here is the link to their work: https://gitlab.com/russell27My aim in posting is to encourage all others to try and stretch...

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Re:GoPlus – The Go+ language for data science on Thursday June 18, 2020 @11:33PM (#23570681)
There is support for many languages Haskell :: https://github.com/gibiansky/IHaskell Rust :: https://github.com/google/evcxr

https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/Jupyter-kernels will give you a more detailed list

Re:X410 – X Server for Windows 10 on Saturday April 18, 2020 @05:55AM (#22906572)
Can you please tell me the exact location of the file to configure the system-wide WSL?

Would it be the equivalent of /etc/profile?

Re:GNU Recutils on Sunday January 26, 2020 @09:16PM (#22156369)
In the 90's there was rdb aka nosql. It was packaged in debian too at that time. I was a happy user. Then lost track of it. Thanks to this post I tracked it down again

http://www.strozzi.it/cgi-bin/CSA/tw7/I/en_US/nosql/Home%20P...

Re:Powers of Two in Lexicographic Order on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @03:14AM (#20562722)
> What's more tricky, I find, is communicating to people what I'm trying to achieve.

A different recipe:

  1. Generate powers of 2

  2. Divide by the highest power of 10 that yields a number between 1 and 10

  3. Sort these numbers
Re:String tokenization in C on Saturday December 15, 2018 @06:34AM (#18688021)
It used to be that gcc will warn against strtok and recommend strsep instead. Do not know what the status is today
Re:NumPy Tricks and Pitfalls on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @07:06AM (#16008246)