Posted on April 8, 2015
UW CSE P 505 – Monads
Monads were created in response to the problems that arise when a pure functional programming language encounters the dirty impurities of the real world. One particular problem that vexed researchers and developers early on was how to represent… Read More
Posted on April 8, 2015
UW CSE P 505 Notes – Continuation Passing Style
Continuation passing style (CPS) is a style of programming wherein function calls are chained together. Each function in the chain performs some computation on a value and then passes the result of that computation on to the next… Read More
Posted on April 8, 2015
Notes from UW CSE P 505 – Writing an interpreter
One of the canonical exercises given in Computer Science graduate level Programming Language courses is writing an interpreter for a Scheme like language, due to Scheme’s relatively simple syntax and minimalist design. My UW CSE P 505 class… Read More
Posted on January 25, 2015
Haskell is cool (infinite self referencing lists)
I’m currently taking CSE 505:Programming Languages at the University of Washington for my masters degree in computer science. We are using Scala at work, a language that incorporates a lot of advanced programming language constructs, so I felt… Read More