Easy step to cook filet mignon

1. Steak is room temperature, use tongs only
2. Coat each side lightly with olive oil
3. Fry one side for 20 seconds, other for 10
4. Put in oven for 10 minutes (15 if large)
5. Let stand for 5 minutes

If juices start bleeding from the steak, that's a good sign. Steak should be rare to medium rare. I like to cook sliced yellow squash and zucchini with about 1 cup of water and some cajun seasoning to go with my steak. Enjoy!

Why your favorite language is unpopular

Why your favorite language is unpopular

200K of stringstream

stringstream needs iostream, which needs ostream which needs...

Simply change uses of stringstream (and iostream) to snprintf() to shave 200K off your app. Impulse, trying to be a minimalist language, can't afford this bloat.

gcc version 3.4.4

Impulse: C++

One of the goals of Impulse is to make bindings and glue code easy to write. Taking advantage of type constructors and operator overloading in C++, you can create a dynamic "language" that's fairly small:

val n = val(5) (pow_, 2);

range(1, 5) lambda (each_,
  cout << args[0] << endl;
)

The first line above without sugar would be:

val a = { 2 }, Args args(&a[0], &a[1]);
val n = val(5).perform(_pow_, args);

Eeek! The second? well... let's not go there :) Actually, it's not bad - just 1 nested class macro.

Impulse and predicate dispatching

With a few days off from work, I had some time to renew my interest in predicate dispatching. Impulse is a language I've been toying with for a few years - here are a few more example (sorry, no runtime available :)

Impulse 2: Language Examples

Forth as a Haskell DSL

Forth as a Haskell DSL

Forth supports function composition by nature. It's interesting how many things they have in common, even though the languages are very different.

Forth and Haskell dualities

Finally

PolyD - A flexible dispatching framework in Java

http://www.cunei.com/polyd/