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.

Friday, June 27, 2014

Edoardo Vacchi on attribute grammars

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I previously wrote that predictable performance is a practical challenge for using attribute grammars on real work . It does little good to ...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

My analysis of the Swift language

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Apple has put out Swift , which sounds like a nice language overall. Here is my flagrantly non-humble opinion about how its features line up...
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Saturday, January 18, 2014

Is Internet access a utility?

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I forwarded a link about Network Neutrality to Google Plus, and it got a lot of comments about how Internet access should be treated like a...
Monday, November 11, 2013

It's ad targeting, isn't it?

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I see continued assumptions by people that the real names policies of Facebook and Google Plus have actual teeth. I've posted before o...
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Sunday, June 16, 2013

When to best use type inference

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Type inference can make code much better. It can save you from writing down something that is completely obvious, and thus a total waste of ...
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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Google Voice after several months

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I've been exclusively using Google Voice for months now, and just for voice mail for more than a year. I feel like the plain-old telepho...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

C compilers exploiting undefined behavior

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It's getting out of hand the way C compilers exploit undefined behavior. I see via John Regehr's blog that there is a SPEC benchmark...
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