This approach to programming is not only useful for algorithms, it’s also a recurring architectural theme. The current version is called microservices. In unix you have the small command line tools that does one thing well. On a smaller scale it’s about s[...]

This approach to programming is not only useful for algorithms, it’s also a recurring architectural theme. The current versin is called microservices. In unix you have the small command line tools that does one thing well. On a smaller scale it’s about sp[...]

Tweet DISCLAIMER : as always, you should bench­mark against your pay­load and use case, the bench­mark num­bers I have pro­duced here is unlikely to be rep­re­sen­ta­tive of your use cases and nei­ther is any­body else’s bench­mark numbers. You can use th[...]

Tweet The problem description is here, and click here to see all my other Euler solutions in F#.   I based my solution on Euclid’s formula for generating Pythagorean triples. And given that max L is 1,500,000, the maximum value for m we need to consider i[...]

This is a minor release with bug fixes and updates for dependent libraries.

Tweet It’s been a while since I last updated my binary and JSON serializer benchmarks, so here I round up the latest versions of the serializers on here.   DISCLAIMER : as always, you should bench­mark against your pay­load and use case, the bench­mark nu[...]

A Developer's journey from OO to Functional

I use Samuel Tonini’s Alchemist (and Elixir mode) to make myself much more productive with Elixir and Emacs.  But one thing that I’ve found to be a minor annoyance is that whenever I start up Emacs I have to set the scratch buffer to be in Elixir mode and[...]

Tweet NOTE : read the rest of the series, or check out the source code. If you enjoy read­ing these exer­cises then please buy Crista’s book to sup­port her work. Fol­low­ing on from the last post, we will look at the Abstract Things style today.   Style [...]

Today I’ve been reviewing the ECMA-334 C# specification, and in particular the section about class instance constructors. I was struck by this piece in a clause about default constructors: If a class contains no instance constructor declarations, a defaul[...]