Abstract Heresies

I use goto all the time. When I have a loop, I goto the top of the loop after each iteration. When a function delegates to another fun...

The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically fairly young, fresh out of school, probab...

We can multiply or divide a floating point number by 2 without changing the bits in the mantissa. So we can rescale the number to be in...

The leftmost bit of any positive binary number is always 1. So if you were to left-justify a positive binary number, the top bit would a...

More than 150,000 troops, 5,000 ships, 13,000 aircraft in the largest amphibious assault in history.

I was amusing myself by looking at Lisp tutorials. They used the idea of a Tic-Tac-Toe service as a motivating example. You’d be able ...

Unlike most languages, Lisp represents its programs as data structures. A Lisp program is a set of nested lists. We can look at a Lisp...