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Nathan Sanders

Bellevue, WA

sandersn.com

Age: 30

SDE2/Bing infrastructure : I work on the compiler of a language for expressing distributed computation. Sometimes it looks like SQL, but isn't. Other times it looks like C#. But it isn't that either.

  • Likes: Python, Haskell, Lisp
  • Dislikes: C++
  • Blood type: ?
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Why isn't Python very good for functional programming?
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Why is Lisp used for AI?
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45
What does the “@” symbol mean in reference to lists in Haskell?
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How to read mentally Lisp/Clojure code
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What are the primary differences between Haskell and F#?
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Does Scala have guards?
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'id' is a bad variable name in Python
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Will there be a functional language which does for the Java community what F# does for the .NET community?
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Haskell Ambiguous Occurrences — how to avoid?
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16
If you already know LISP, why would you also want to learn F#?
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Haskell composition (.) vs F#'s pipe forward operator (|>)
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Does anyone use the Scheme programming language for a living?
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12
How do 20 questions AI algorithms work?
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10
In SICP exercise 2.26 using DrScheme, why does cons return a list, instead of a pair of lists?
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F# Functions vs. Values
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Can I use Common Lisp for SICP or is Scheme the only option?
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No idea how to solve SICP exercise 1.11
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List Comprehension Library for Scheme?
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Functional Programming in C# vs LISP
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Clojure While Loop
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F# How to Count Number of elements in a list that match some criteria?
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Haskell: Constrain function on type Double to only work with Integers
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What are some things that you've used Scheme macros for?
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Calculating the Cartesian product of a list of numbers with F#
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Is there any benefit to porting the Haskell Edison API and Core to F#?
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Haskell n-ary tree traversal
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What are the advantages of scheme macros?
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Common lisp idiom - is there a better way?
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How do I take a slice of a list (A sublist) in scheme?
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Sources for learning about Scheme Macros: define-syntax and syntax-rules
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