Author: grant
Is OCaml's standard library its weakest link?
In this post I read that:
OCaml’s standard library is one of its weakest parts. Always use extensions to the std library.
Searching around the net I find ExtLib, Batteries, and Janestreet.
I’m not sure what “weakest link” meant in the original post so I will leave it wide open for any concerns that people have. Perhaps it means that it does not have enough functionality? Or slow? Or there is something odd about the APIs?
It is true that OCaml’s standard library is its weakest link?
The beginnings of Scheme on the Wii
The beginnings of Scheme on the Wii via Gambit and the efforts of Sean Charles are discussed here.
What are you favorite PhD candidate online communities?
Sometimes good company can be the difference between reaching your goals and failing to do so.
I’m wondering what online communities people find value in on their path to obtaining their PhDs?
Search engine for LaTeX equations
Provided by Springer here.
Unlike other LaTeX sites that provide code specifically for equation names; this seems to be a search engine for the LaTeX source of papers they have collected.
Pharo Smalltalk
Pharo is a fork from the Squeak open-source Smalltalk. We decided to start Pharo because as active Squeakers, and responsible for Squeak 3.9, we felt the need to reconsider choices made. We want to create a better Smalltalk and be free to enhance it without fear of backwards compatibility to Squeak.
How do you define being "burnt out"?
How do you define being “burnt out”?
I found this fellow’s definition intriguing:
burning out isn’t just about work load, it’s about work load being greater than the motivation to do work
— Keith Yost
This sounds so very insidious.
Someone's feedback on OCaml
Here is one fellow’s feedback on OCaml.
It is balanced and seems useful, especially given that he links to his philosophy on languages, which appears to be a healthy one.
HPDC 2010 in Chicago this year
Here is the website; it looks to be pretty interesting.
OpenMP vs MPI: Who needs more help using it?
OK this is definitely a tougne-in-cheek post, subtly suggesting that OpenMP is a better API then MPI simply by looking at the number of helpdesk tickets, but it is worth a laugh if you don’t take it too seriously :).
(Especially since they are apples vs oranges)