The idea behind literate programming, that a program can be a piece of literature, is due to Donald E. Knuth. Knuth is an extremely respected figure in programming community (and also among combinatorics and computer science people). In this paradigm, one does not write a program based on how computer would reason about it but …
‘I will pay my debt to society through research in my subject. And beyond this, I owe no other debt to society.’ Having resolved this, she went on. —Vidyadhar Pundalik (1970) on Irawati Karve It was my undergraduate when I had my first rigorous encounter with city-schooled boys and girls. I was fresh out of …
I wrote a Haskell implementation of a popular game Hangman. Hangman thinks of a word and tells you its length. You get that many chance to guess it. The procedure of guessing is following assuming length of the word is n. You guess a letter, if the word contains that letter, hangman reveals the location …
A program written in declarative paradigm does not specify "how to do it", at best, it tells the computer "what to do". The spice-netlist is one such example, here we tell ngspice or some other spice (circuit simulator), what to compute (like .OP, .DC, .AC etc.). To be sure, this distinction is rather based on …
Recently, a friend taught me a simple game of bulls and cows. This game goes like this. There are two players, A and B. A thinks of a 4-letter word and asks B to guess it. Assume that A thought of “link” and B guesses “lean”. The bulls are the number of letters which are …
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