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js-choi / compact-unicode-character-names.md
Last active October 12, 2023 10:56
Compact Unicode character names

Concise Unicode character names in JavaScript

J. S. Choi, 2022

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All programmers must manipulate text; JavaScript programmers are no exception. Text manipulation often refers to specific characters, usually by their code points in hexadecimal – or by embedding the characters directly in source code.

@aesuli
aesuli / Wikipedia_character_frequencies.txt
Last active September 30, 2024 10:41
Unicode character frequencies computed on dumps of all wikipedia languages
# Unicode character frequencies computed on dumps of all wikipedia languages (288)
# Dumps downloader: https://github.com/aesuli/wikipediatools
# Html converted to plain text: https://github.com/aesuli/wikipedia-extractor
#
# Andrea Esuli
# http://www.esuli.it/
#
#'char'<tab>ord(char)<tab>freq
' ' 32 6098823328
'e' 101 3226481962
@darius
darius / RABBIT.scm
Last active September 23, 2024 19:44
;;- -*-scheme-*-
;;; rabbit compiler
;;- This is the source code to the RABBIT Scheme compiler, by Guy Steele,
;;- taken from the Indiana Scheme repository and annotated by me, Darius
;;- Bacon. I converted it from all-uppercase to all-lowercase and
;;- reindented it with Emacs for better readability. I've added the
;;- comments starting with either ;- or ;*. Other comments are by Steele.
;;- The ;- comments were things I'd figured out, while ;* denoted things
;;- for me to look into. (Sometimes I didn't bother to type in the answer
@pqwy
pqwy / meta.rkt
Last active December 7, 2024 06:31
dat metacircular evaluation
#lang racket
;;
;; Run-of-the mill metacircular evaluator for (a small subset of) scheme.
;; Includes delimited continuations, and the tower of (positive) meta-levels.
;;
(struct closure [vars body environment])
(struct primitive [procedure])
@isaacs
isaacs / comma-first-var.js
Created April 6, 2010 19:24
A better coding convention for lists and object literals in JavaScript
// See comments below.
// This code sample and justification brought to you by
// Isaac Z. Schlueter, aka isaacs
// standard style
var a = "ape",
b = "bat",
c = "cat",
d = "dog",