Iterative email problem solving with python.
One of the little joys of being a sysadmin is being able to solve a problem by composing a highly specific tool out of a...
Making staging explicit
We just had an interesting discussion around the office about staging and curried functions. I was reading over a new string-escaping routine, which had the...
By: Yaron Minsky
Fork Core!
We’ve now put our collection of open-source libraries out on bitbucket. You can find and browse the code here.
By: Yaron Minsky
Moving files via rsync
One of my favorite features in rsync is using it to ‘move’ files between boxes.
By: Ralph Douglass
OCaml, the ultimate refactoring tool
This is why I love OCaml.
By: Yaron Minsky
Announcing Async
We just released a new monadic concurrency library called Async.
By: Yaron Minsky
+'a and -'a
If you’ve ever wondered what it means in OCaml when there is a + or - in front of a type variable, read on.
By: Stephen Weeks
A mailing list for Core
After giving a tutorial on the Core libraries at CUFP, it’s become clear that we need to provide a more open forum for people to...
By: Yaron Minsky
Coming to ICFP/CUFP? Propose a BOF!
CUFP will again be having Bird-of-a-Feather sessions to discuss a variety of FP topics. Last year’s BOFs were a lot of fun, with topics ranging...
By: Yaron Minsky
Using types to track defaults
We use OCaml’s optional arguments a fair bit at Jane Street. One nagging problem has been coming up with a good way of documenting in...
By: Stephen Weeks
Rethinking Univ
A few years back, Stephen wrote a fun post about how to build a so-called “universal type” in OCaml. Such a type allows you to...
By: Yaron Minsky
Time to register for CUFP!
If you’re interested in applying functional programming to real world problems, then you should consider joining us at CUFP, the Commercial Users of Functional Programming...
By: Yaron Minsky
Dropping history with Mercurial
One feature we’ve wanted from hg for a while is the ability to drop history. It’s a natural thing to want, after all; with any...
By: Yaron Minsky
Core Gems: many happy returns
One recent arrival in Core is with_return, a function that lets you return early from a computation. Here’s a trivial example:
By: Yaron Minsky
OCaml is smarter than I thought
People (myself included) like to say that OCaml isn’t really an optimizing compiler, that it has a pretty straight-ahead compilation strategy, and for the most...
By: Yaron Minsky
OCamlPro and the future of OCaml
Fabrice Le Fessant has just set up a new company, OCamlPro, whose goal is to provide commercial support for OCaml, and to make it a...
By: Yaron Minsky
Effective ML Revisited (with videos)
Here are the videos to go with the guest lecture I just gave at Harvard. It’s not too different from the one that I gave...
By: Yaron Minsky
Core 0.7.0 is out!
The newest release of Jane Street’s core standard library is now out! It’s been a while, and a lot of small things have changed in...
By: Yaron Minsky
