Why nullable types?

Logical layout enhancements with flow-relative shorthands

Combinators and the Story of Computation

Issue #44

12/8/2020

A Byte of Coding Issue #44
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No one replied about the comments on the site, so I figure the Discord server will do for now. And here's the issue!11!one1one1!

PS: I'll throw in an extra article thats's more about the business side of working as a freelance programmer, which some of you might find interesting.

Why nullable types?

Published: 8 December 2020
Tags: dart

Nulls represent the absence of a value. This is pretty useful in programming, when you often times have variables that may or may not have actual values (optional fields are honestly a pain). Well in this article, Bob Nystrom introduces the new null types added to Dart. Bob explains the usefulness of nulls, two possible implementations for null types based on language design, and concludes with whcih one was selected for Dart and why.
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Logical layout enhancements with flow-relative shorthands

Published: 23 October 2020
Tags: css

Although globalization is a great thing, software is still mostly playing catch up when it comes to having easily implementable solutions for handling different locales. And for good reason. Languages, dates, and times can all come in different formats. Adam Argyle and Oriol Brufau have written an extensive article about CSS features that handle document flow for you, based on user locale. Write simple code to handle laying out the webpage for you regardless of if the language is read left to right, right to left, or up to down!
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Combinators and the Story of Computation

Published: 7 December 2020
Tags: math, functional programming, history

Mathematics has been standardized to such an extent, that it's really the most international language (numbers and "naah, that's waaay too expensive" are usually the first things I learn when I go somewhere). But that wasn't always the case. In this knowledge-packed article, Stephen Wolfram describes a little bit of the history of mathematical symbology, combinators and their mathematics, Gödel’s theorem and computability, lambda calculus, practical computation, combinators in culture, designing symbolic language, and combinators in the computational universe.
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