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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?
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Why did JavaScript choose to include a void operator?
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Why do programming languages use the asterisk * for multiplication?
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How to ensure that an optimising compiler will terminate?
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Why do relational comparison operators never short-circuit?
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Why don't many languages have integer range types?
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What are the drawbacks of allowing implicit boolean/integer conversions?
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Can "no cyclic data structures" be enforced at compile time?
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What are the advantages of requiring forward declaration of methods/fields like C/C++ does?
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How could a language make the loop-and-a-half less error-prone?
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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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Typescript Key-Value relation preserving Object.entries type
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Why is the infer keyword needed in Typescript?

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