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A good programming language will have many libraries building on a small set of core features. Writing and distributing libraries is much ea...

I've often wondered how hard it is to output a PNG file directly, without using a library or a standard tool like pnmtopng . (I'm n...

[Update, Jan 2015: I've translated this code into Rust .] While reading " Continuations in C " I came across an intriguing id...

How can we pick a random Haskell function? Specifically, we want to write an IO action randomFunction :: IO ( Integer -> Bool ) wit...

Yesterday I gave a talk about writing kernel exploits. I've posted the slides [PDF] . Here is the original description: Did you know t...

Have you ever wanted to embed GDB breakpoints in C source code? int main() { printf( "Hello, \n " ); EMBED_BREAKPOINT; ...