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I used to be a CS lecturer, now I design programming languages as a hobby:

  • Papyri, a programmable markup language.
  • MJr, a probabilistic programming language based on pattern-rewriting.
  • fffff, the silliest stack-based concatenative language.

I mostly write in Typescript, Python and Java. I also have a new blog here.

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Why do programming languages use delimiters (quotes) for strings?
Aug 28, 2023
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Why did JavaScript choose to include a void operator?
Aug 25, 2023
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Why do programming languages use the asterisk * for multiplication?
Sep 21, 2023
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How to ensure that an optimising compiler will terminate?
Aug 25, 2023
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Why do (or don't) languages forbid unreachable code?
Mar 21
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Whether the default behavior of +-×÷ should be saturation instead of wrapping when overflow?
Feb 24
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Why is array access not an infix operator?
Jun 10
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Why do relational comparison operators never short-circuit?
Sep 30, 2023
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Why don't many languages have integer range types?
Jun 30, 2023
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Can "no cyclic data structures" be enforced at compile time?
May 16, 2023
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Please enable MathJax
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Please enable MathJax
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Missing the obvious close reason: "not about programming language design or implementation"
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Should frivolous questions about esolangs be on topic?
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Are questions about the design of ISA instruction-set encodings on-topic?
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Statement from SO: June 5, 2023 Moderator Action
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New blog post from our CEO Prashanth: Community is the future of AI
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Typescript Key-Value relation preserving Object.entries type
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New post summary designs on site home pages and greatest hits now; everywhere else eventually
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Why is the infer keyword needed in Typescript?