7/28    So, I'd like to try playing with a functional language.  Any
        recommendations?
        \_ Haskel.  Why would you start with anything else?
        \_ Haskell if you want a _functional_ language.  Ocaml if you want to
           see what a proper language implementation looks like.  LISP if
           you want old fogies to think you are cool. -- ilyas
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7/15    Is it possible through JNI to write a function which takes a float[]
        array and through the magic of c casts it to an int array and then
        returns the int array to Java, not modifying the actual data?
        If not, is there a good Java way to do the C equivalent of:
        int* i = (int*) f; ?
        Don't ask whether I really need to be doing this because there is a
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6/21    My math and/or perl fu is weak. Is there a way to get integer
        multiplication in Perl the way it's done in C? i.e. limiting
        to 32 bits. Like 1588635697 * 1117695901 = 1166976269 in C.
        \_ Can't you just multiply and then mask all but the last 32 bits?
           \_ I don't think so; that's not the same as mult overflow.
              > perl -e 'print (1588635697 * 1117695901)'
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9/9     Why are there so much politics on the motd? Isn't this the
        CSUA? Doesn't the C stands for something computer??
        \_ Its stands for Computer Stuff and Unrelated Arguing
           \_ Golf clap.
              \_ I didn't know there even was such a thing as a golf ho,
                 and you're telling me they've got their own VD's?
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7/1     Using sed, how do I do the following?  I want to replace the
        first line containing a particular pattern with the 2nd line
        containing said pattern.  For example, if "line" is the pattern,
        then I want
                this is the 1st line
                this is the 2nd
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6/25    What percent of security holes would be solved by banning strcpy()
        in favor of strncpy()?
        \_ probably not much, since they're all coming to be php bugs these
           days.
        \_ Or using Java instead of C (no buffer overrun)?
                \_ It is not always possible to use java. I have customers
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5/21    I was not a CS major and never took the compiler class.  What is
        a good book to help me write a compiler?  And what about interpreter?
        Do they basically involve the same issues except code generation and
        optimization?
        \_ Use the book by Robert Mak, called "Writing Interpreters and
           Compilers in C++." It's a practical, hands-on "lab" type book which
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5/20    I have seen some ocaml comments on the motd.  What about Haskell?
        Is it better/worse/about the same?  I know it is supposed to "pure"
        but don't know what this translates to in reality.
        \_ Haskell is the only language I want to know something about, yet
           know almost nothing about.  I know it's not speedy, unlike ocaml,
           but has lots of clean ideas, and you can write really short code in
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5/11    To FP activists on the motd, if currying is such a great idea, why
        it's not implemented symmetrically in say Caml?  It seems more
        natural to treat the arguments of a function more symmetrically.
        \_ If by 'symmetric' you mean that if, for example, I have a function
           f of two arguments a and b, I should be able to curry on either
           a or b, then Ocaml does this using labeled arguments.  Caml does
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4/30    Quick C++ question. In Meyer's More Effective C++, Item 22, he has
        a snippet of code like this:
        template<class T>
        const T operator+(const T& lhs, const T& rhs)
        {
          return T(lhs) += rhs;
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