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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

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History of Lisp ( Hacker News). Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone ( Google Developers Blog). SAP to acquire Hybris to jumpstart its presence in e-commerce ( VentureBeat). A Study on Solving Callbacks with JavaScript Generators ( Hacker News). A handy list of RSS readers with feature comparisons ( Hacker News).

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

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SolarisUnix. Supported Languages. JavaScript. Objective C. Visual Basic.Net. JavaScript (Node.js). PostgreSQL support is available free from the community, and there are also many support providers available for advanced assistance.

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John McCarthy

Sutter's Mill

Some examples: He’s the inventor of Lisp, the second-oldest high-level programming language, younger than Fortran by just one year. Lisp is one of the most influential programming languages in history. Granted, however, most programmers don’t use directly Lisp-based languages, so its great influence has been mostly indirect.

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Garbage Collection Synopsis, and C++

Sutter's Mill

Patrick wrote the.NET CLR’s GC, and it was far from his first; before that he had deep experience implementing Lisp runtimes, and I’m sure has forgotten more about GC than I’ll ever know. He’s also a great guy to work with. For a great book on GC, I love Garbage Collection by Jones and Lins.

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Scaling symbolic evaluation for automated verification of systems code with Serval

The Morning Paper

Here’s a program in a toy RISC instruction set which computes the sign of its argument: And here’s what a Rosette specification for the desired behaviour of that program looks like: Hello Lisp (well, s-expressions anyway)!

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Two Recommended Essayists

All Things Distributed

Both are excellent writers who take a deeper, philosophical look at human nature and the specifically the traits of professionals, they investigate the fundamentals of human collaboration, and the ways that it impacts our daily lifes Paul's background is in Lisp programming, while Scott's is in program management and UI design.

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Let's Write Some x86-64

Nick Desaulniers

So a whole Babel of computer languages has been created for programmers: FORTRAN, BASIC, COBOL, LISP, Pascal, C, PROLOG, FORTH. My imagination of a divine language looks a lot more like an idealized and cleaned-up LISP. But you never can tell exactly what the compiler is doing.

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