Programming
Calling a function (or function object) dynamically, through a pointer known at runtime, is a common programming scenario. Almost all languages support this use case. Lisp, for example, has apply and funcall. When using apply, you can see that the arguments are passed via a separate list object. With funcall, however, the arguments are passed […]
In the last post, I outlined an approach to convert a dependency graph (the result of dependency parsing) to RDF. The particular RDF format I used is Turtle, which is widely supported. Today, I would like to show how to load this RDF data in a Semantic Graph database and make queries on it. There […]
Dependency parsing is widely used these days, and many NLP tools give a dependency graph as the parsed representation of the input text. See for example, SpacY and TextRazor. The following is the dependency tree corresponding to the sentence Mary is drinking cold water: The above tree was generated using SpacY. You can see that […]
Recently I came across a nice Lisp-based Monadic Parser Combinator library written by Massung. Unlike the traditional parser generators such as ANTLR, this library allows us to embed the parser in Lisp. Similar libraries are available for other languages too (see, for example ParsecJ for Java). The original idea of Monadic parser is from Haskell’s Parsec […]
In my previous post, I showed how to build a C-based Windows DLL to execute Prolog predicates in the Sicstus Prolog engine. Today, I want to show how to build an executable (on Windows) from a C/C++ program that uses Sicstus prolog engine. The process is quite simple. In order to make things interesting, I am […]
Last week I upgraded to the latest version (4.4.1) of Sicstus Prolog for Windows. Since the Prolog engine can be embedded (royalty free) in other applications, it is useful to understand how to create a DLL (on Windows) for this purpose. In today’s article, I would like to outline this process in sufficient detail because I found […]
Title: The Modern C++ Challenge Author: Marius Bancilla Publisher: Packt Publishing Year: May 2018 This week I have been going through a new book titled The Modern C++ Challenge written by Marius Bancilla. The book is a collection of programming problems (along with suggested solutions) targeting C++ . The title of the book is a […]
In my earlier article Calling Go Functions from Lisp, I explained the steps for making calls to Go functions from another language, specifically LispWorks Lisp. Today, I want to give a slightly more interesting example showing the use of Go channels through exported functions. Go is widely admired for its native support for concurrency via Goroutines. […]
In the previous post, we saw how to invoke a Go function from Lisp. In today’s post, I would like to explain how to go in the other direction, namely, how to call Lisp functins from Go. There are two ways to do this. The first approach is to load the Lisp DLL (like any […]
For the past few weeks I was travelling in the USA and had the pleasure of meeting several friends, some of whom are senior developers and architects. It was interesting to learn that many of them were either using Go language in their daily work, or were passionately endorsing the language! Due to lack of […]
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