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Introduction David R. MacIver has recently written this blog post about cleaning up a set of tags. This blog post, on the other hand, is about a nice old Unix tool called ‘awk’. Awk is one of those programs that is often overlooked. It is really a small domain-specific language for processing text. In some [...]

I’ve noticed that when reading rather deeply-nested functional code in Haskell, the process taking place in reading the code seems to resemble trying to decipher APL more than anything else. This seems to be because functions which operate over lists are easily concatenated (possibly using the $ operator), because they operate on lists in their [...]