Programming Leftovers
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Hackaday ☛ C+P: Combining The Usefulness Of C With The Excellence Of Prolog
In a move that will absolutely not over-excite anyone, nor lead to any heated arguments, [needleful] posits that their C Plus Prolog (C+P for short) programming language is the best possible language ever. This is due to it combining the best of the only good programming language (Prolog) with the best of the only useful programming language (C). Although the resulting mash-up syntax that results may trigger Objective-C flashbacks, it’s actually valid SWI-Prolog, that is subsequently converted to C for compilation.
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Rlang ☛ How to Center ggplot Title, Subtitle, and caption in ggplot2 with R
Have you ever wondered why your ggplot title is not perfectly aligned, detracting from the impact of your data visualization?
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Open Source For U ☛ The Do’s and Don’ts for Software Architects
Here’s a list of best practices for software architects as well as the common mistakes they should try not to fall prey to. In the ever-evolving world of software development, the role of a software architect is pivotal.
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Rlang ☛ Digital Difficulties
Here’s another puzzle, from Henry Dudeney’s Perplexities column in Strand Magazine, January 1924.
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The New Stack ☛ How Warp Terminal Helps Me Correct My Scripts and Coding
Every so often, technology really seriously and magically impresses me, which is no easy feat these days.
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LWN ☛ Git 2.49.0 released
Version 2.49.0 of the Git source-code management system has been released. This release comprises 460 non-merge commits since 2.48.0, with contributions from 89 people, including 24 new contributors. There is a long list of improvements and bug fixes; see the highlights blog from Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub 's Taylor Blau for some of the more interesting