Lex Spoon

I'm Lex Spoon, a software enthusiast living in Atlanta, GA. I write on Substack and on my home page in addition to here.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Practical challenges for attribute grammars

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I've had occasion recently to work on a compiler implemented with an attribute grammar framework. Such frameworks let you declare attrib...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Programming in Scala available online

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Artima has graciously agreed to post the first edition of Programming in Scala online for free . It's now easier than ever to learn abo...
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Monday, April 4, 2011

Appel on seal protocols for electronic voting

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Andrew Appel reminds the public that good election protocols were historically rather difficult to develop: Democratic elections present a...
Friday, April 1, 2011

Dan Wallach on fixing the certificate authorities

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I like the latest ideas from Dan Wallach about building better infrastructure for browsers to detect impostor web sites. First, there...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

A computer science journal with open access

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Since writing that economics has an online open-access journal , I've been informed that computer science has at least one: Logical Meth...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

When stateful code is better

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One branch of functional-programming enthusiasts have long strived to eliminate state from programming. By doing so, you end up with program...
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Monday, March 28, 2011

Economics now has an online journal

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Economics joins the ranks of those fields with an online academic journal. All papers are free for download. They've even back-posted a...
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