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Re:History of Zero-Based Months?
on Saturday August 27, 2022 @06:09AM (#32617487)
"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.com/hillelogram/status/1329228419628998665
Re:Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition
on Monday August 16, 2021 @11:16AM (#28199079)
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/
Re:Functional Programming in OCaml
on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:48AM (#27981336)
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, but it should be great for students with some limited programming experience.
[1]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages
[2]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages-part-b
Re:Accidentally quadratic: When Python is faster than C++
on Thursday March 04, 2021 @04:34AM (#26340423)
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 changed it[0].