Monthly Archives: July 2008

On the Use of non-Tail-Recursive Functions In Commercial Code

Dear Customer, Attached is the software for which you paid several hundred pounds. It should work. Maybe on larger inputs it will fail. Sometimes several small parts of it will work, but when you put them together it will fail. … Continue reading

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New Reviews of Old Books #57

Digital Typography, Donald E. Knuth, 1999 (Amazon) This collection of more than thirty articles and notes covering the Knuth’s foray into digital type in the late seventies and eighties. They range from font design (a whole chapter on the shape … Continue reading

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Compiling Code Under OCaml and F# (Part Two)

[Part One] Twenty thousand lines of CamlPDF and cpdf later, here are some numbers: Occasions on which conditional compilation is required: 22 Compilation warnings with fsc –no-warn 62: 15 Time taken: 22 hours The current executable appears to be about … Continue reading

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