Norman Ramsey

Malden, MA

cs.tufts.edu/~nr

Age: 51

Every time I see a question about "strong" or "weak" typing, I kill a kitten.

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What Haskell representation is recommended for 2D, unboxed pixel arrays with millions of pixels?

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Should I send students to Stack Overflow?

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What version-control system is most trivial to set up and use for toy projects?

version-control teaching darcs asked Nov 28 '08 at 18:52

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What is the difference between `git fetch origin` and `git remote update origin`?

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What are the disadvantages of the Spirit parser-generator framework from boost.org?

parsing boost-spirit parser-generator asked Jan 11 '09 at 2:01

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What are the similarities and differences among Haskell indentation modes for Emacs?

haskell emacs haskell-mode asked Jul 6 '12 at 16:04

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Can Mercurial be made to preserve file permissions?

mercurial metadata file-permissions asked Aug 17 '09 at 19:05

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Are there tools that would be suitable for maintaining a changelog for a Cabal Haskell package?

haskell packaging software-distribution cabal asked Apr 8 '10 at 1:27

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What multithreading package for Lua “just works” as shipped?

multithreading lua parallel-processing asked Apr 16 '11 at 20:53

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What are the relative merits of pdflatex?

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Is it faster to count down than it is to count up?

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Functional programming vs Object Oriented programming

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In Functional Programming, what is a functor?

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Which game scripting language is better to use: Lua or Python?

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Significant new inventions in computing since 1980

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Why interpreted langs are mostly ducktyped while compiled have strong typing?

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Significant new inventions in computing since 1980

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Clean readable code vs fast hard to read code. When to cross the line?

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Is there a software-engineering methodology for functional programming?

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Best way to kill all child processes

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Runtime vs Compile time

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Why is Bash everywhere (in most if not all Linux distributions)?

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What is the best language to write a compiler in?

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What are the differences between SML and Ocaml?

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Is Lua interesting, from a programming language design perspective?

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What is Hindley-Milner?

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I'm graduating with a Computer Science degree but I don't feel like I know how to program

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Why isn't OCaml more popular?

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Should I learn Haskell or F# if I already know OCaml?

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Is C strongly typed?

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Lua vs. Other scripting languages

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Alternatives to gprof

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Why are Haskell algebraic data types “closed”?

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Why is software quality so problematic?

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Good Haskell coding standards

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Write a Haskell interpreter in Haskell

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Does “untyped” also mean “dynamically typed” in the academic CS world?

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How long does it take for you to be comfortable with Haskell?

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Should I use GHC Haskell extensions or not?

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Haskell for a server?

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