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Functors, Applicatives and Monads

In haskell, functors are basically type constructors that define the fmap function, i.e., they take a type t and wrap them in their own type which is constructed by passing t to the type constructor.

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My experiments with OCaml - 4

Alright, I was setting up the AST generator and I realized how painful it can truly be. No wonder every compiler writer complains of the parse phase itself. I'm taking an approach of not throwing in errors rn but let's see. I'd ideally want to be able to diagnose what's going wrong where, and then be able to debug print the AST that the compiler is generating.

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resources

I'm tired of being asked for resources again and again. I'm dumping all of them here. I'll keep updating this list. I'm not categorizing them, I have better things to do in life. They are in no particular order. Ping me if an entry is stale. This is all I know atm. Will add more as and when I know. My own blog also has some notes, might be helpful.

I don't love CS

The truth is, I never loved CS. I never really wanted to do it. I was, just, intrigued by it. Really, that's all there is to it. Nothing more. My first love was always molecular biology and biochemistry.

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Experiments with OCaml - part 3

Ok, so the error last time was the fact that emacs was not able to pick up the change in ocaml switches, hence I restarted for my compositor to pick my settings and emacs picked it up wonderfully. Next, Fira Code ligatures were actually insanely annoying in emacs so I switched to ProFont, and it looks wonderful. Third, dune and dune-format packages are lifesavers.

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