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One trick that seems to be all the rage these days is to show off fancy results from functional languages in their imperative counterparts. Now, I love functional languages; OCaml/Haskell/Erlang give me a programmer hard-on that imperative languages can only dream of. In that vein, I present to you a very clever implementation of the [...]

When a programmer takes his/her first steps in a new language, the first example program he/she codes (or skips over) is usually the prototypical “Hello, world”, or a variant thereof. I thought I might run through a few of the classical “Hello, world” examples from programming languages that I find interesting. This first example is [...]