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Paul Bone
Personal blog · paul.bone.id.auprogrammingsystems
Paul Bone's personal blog at paul.bone.id.au covers programming and systems. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-06, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Paul Bone's posts on logic programming, including the Mercury and Prolog languages. The comments discuss those topics and do not directly judge the writing.
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Paul Bone is a software engineer and computer scientist. His interests include programming languages, declarative programming, programming language implementation, parallelism and concurrency. Paul works for Mozilla on Firefox's JavaScript engine's garbage collector by day, and the Plasma programm
What Hacker News says?
Anything, web servers, systems programming, video games, etc. Its more of a different way of programming and thinking, using logic variables and unification to solve problems. Once you wrap your head around logic programming, its pretty easy and very powerful. Mercury's selling poings are: - runtime performance (automatic parallelization, very efficient due to logic programming understanding and rewriting sequenced…
Comment linking /pub/pbone-2015-mercury.pdf
on “The Mercury programming language”Submitted X86 Addressing Under the Hood as a story · 87 points
HN discussionThanks for the links! I have two replies for this: (1) I would like to implement a type inferencer in Prolog and (2) This doesn't justify what you originally said (but we don't have to argue that point. I appreciate the response. :) ) ----- (1) Can you elaborate on what you mean by the type inferencer being identical to the interpreter? I see the type inferencer in Python in joy/utils/types.py. And I see your interp…
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on “Prolog Under the Hood: An Honest Look (1992)”Submitted Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Garbage Collection as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Falsehoods about Garbage Collection as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Poisoning Firefox Memory as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Memory Fragmentation in the Boehm-Demers-Weiser Garbage Collector as a story · 1 points
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