Paul Nathan

Paul Nathan has asked 103 questions and find answers to 105 problems.

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About

Software engineer/craftman/programmer
Passion for quality and correctness as exemplified in the continuous improvement/kaizen model.
Obsessive about tools and infrastructure
Focused on working in Scala/Rust/Lisp/Haskell/OCaml
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Paul Nathan questions

Managing many thousand buffers in emacs
conditional evaluation of source file in python
Streaming stdout from a qx subprocess
How can I interpolate an array of alternations into a Perl regex?
Passing structs by pointer in C89
How can I test that a Perl program compiles from my test suite?
Semantics of python loops and strings
Is there a way to access slots in the superclass list in CLOS?
Getting the primary key back from a SQL insert with SQLite
Syntax Error in Common Lisp Loop facility

Paul Nathan answers

How does a modern compiler know an operation will not have sideffects?
Six degrees of Kevin Bacon in Perl
Visually improving emacs
hg archive to Remote Directory
Should you standardize on a scripting language in a dev group?
A prototyping language with the ability to be fast [closed]
Clozure CL on Mac OS X: get rid of the GUI?
compile/run Common LIsp from the Mac Terminal
Designing file processing that handles many file formats, parsing, validation, and persistence
Garbage data from serial port