Greg Bacon

Huntsville, AL

blog.gbacon.com

Age: 36

Personal Statement: Here to bust some heads and chew bubble gum—and I'm all outta bubble gum.

Further Reading: Visit my blog.

Claim to Fame: I coined the phrase Perl golf.

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How do you use Control.Applicative to write cleaner Haskell?

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How do I estimate Strunk & White progress?

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Regular expressions aren't

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Everyday encounters with NP-complete problems

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Inferred type appears to detect an infinite loop, but what's really happening?

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How do the rules of English inform understanding of one of our language's most disputed sentences?

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How can I set up a simple test with Cabal?

testing haskell cabal asked Jun 25 '09 at 15:22

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Rollbacks and Strunk & White

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Which Perl built-ins cannot be overridden in CORE::GLOBAL?

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How do I estimate Fanatic progress?

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Quickly getting to YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS in Perl

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Good Haskell coding style of if/else control block?

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How can I use Perl to get a SHA1 hash of a file from the Windows command line?

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git: how to add/commit removals made via vanilla rm?

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When is it OK to use an undefined variable in perl with warnings enabled?

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Haskell tool to rewrite import statements to name all imports?

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Cloning git repository from svn repository, results in file-less, remote-branch-less git repo

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