13 items tagged “language”
📌 Douglas Hofstadter - Person Paper on Purity in Language #
📌 Perl 6
Interesting choice of a new design for the Perl 6 home page. Yes, the colors are pretty garish, and I’m a bit weirded out by the somewhat patronizing female voice being employed. However, I’m especially struck by the decision to ask people to “be nice” right up front: setting expectations of politeness right on the homepage is awesome. #
📌 Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer #
📌 Pyntch - Static Code Analysis for Python
Typeflow analysis for Python. Looks pretty cool; don’t know how well it’ll work on larger projects. #
📌 If Programming Languages Were Christmas Carols | The Changelog
Guido we have hard on high / Sweetly indenting o’re the code, / And the functions in reply / Their exceptions sweetly flowed. #
📌 Growing a Language, by Guy Steele
Absolutely amazing. #
📌 XPRL.org Home Page
“eXtensible Public Relations Language.” Yikes. #
📌 English stop words
A pretty good set of English stop words. #
📌 RussellBeattie.com - Fuck
“Fuck is just a word. I use it liberally when I don’t feel like filtering (and I feel that by not filtering, the post will be better for it). So get over it, you bunch of pansy ass, oversensitive, hypocritical whiners.” #
📌 Book - NLTK
A book on natural language processing in Python. #
📌 LilyPond - About - Essay
Awesome essay on automating music typography. #
📌 List of fictional expletives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yippe-kay-yay, Mr. Falcon! #
📌 Worst analogies ever written in a high school essay
“The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t. ” #
