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19 Apr, 2008

What Lisp & Assembly instill

Posted by: sharjeel In: Programming

My Assembly Programming Language teacher, Belal Hashmi Sahib said in the first lecture of the course, “Assembly is extremely simple. It is so simple that students don’t expect such simplicity and hence it starts appearing complex to them”. Then he wrote MOV AX, BX on the board, explained it and asked if everyone understood it. […]

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03 Apr, 2008

Secret Weapons for Java Programmers

Posted by: sharjeel In: Programming

Many great hackers and programmers do not consider Java programming language a good choice. The safety features of Java such as pure OO, strong typing etc. force its users to laboriously write lots of classes, declare and typecast variables, call extraneous methods to fetch simple data and puts under a lot of restrictions. Such techniques […]

02 Apr, 2008

Prank @ LUMS on 1st April

Posted by: sharjeel In: Uncategorized

Who says Nerds have no life! Nerds have the most creative minds and come up with most interesting ideas. That’s why they are Nerds. For instance MIT hackers pull the coolest hacks & pranks which fascinate people all over globe.
This year on 1st April we (2’s complement: i.e. Adil, Yaser & me) came up […]

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  • sharjeel: @m: I'm not discouraging, I'm just making a distinction to make things clear. @Stas Shtin: Thanks for pointing out. I hastly wrote the code earli
  • ben: bm: I went and read section 1.2.1 of SICP as recommended in the reddit comments and the distinction between forms of functions and processes makes mor
  • Ned Batchelder: You might want to read Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, section 1.2.1. There they make a clear distinction between recursive proces

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