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LTE Crypto — safe, stateful computations in purely functional language Haskell

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Snow3G is one of the two algorithms (the other being AES) algorithms used in LTE (4G) mobile network. The specifications for LTE come from the standards body called 3GPP and include the specification and reference implementation in C for the Snow 3G algorithm. There is an algorithm for confidentiality (encryption/decryption), and an algorithm for integrity. … Read more

Javascript problem — and its many solutions

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As most of us know, there are several problems/quirks/flaws with Javascript and this is known as the Javascript problem. However, like it or not, as long as we use browsers, we need Javascript. So, what is the solution? Pick your favorite language (hope it is not Javascript!) and hope that there is a transpiler that … Read more

Haskell for teaching algorithms

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Note 1: This article is executable code. You can copy and paste this article in a file with extension .lhs (say crypto.lhs), load it in a haskell interpreter and run the examples! You can get started by installing the haskell platform on Windows, Linux or Mac. You can learn Haskell by reading the excellent tutorial … Read more

Dynamic Programming

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Video lectures of MIT course 6-00Fall-2008 “Introduction to Computer Science and Programming” are available as part of open courseware. One of the topics is “Dynamic Programming” where the knapsack problem is discussed. The programming language used in the course is Python. I wish however that scala or haskell was used instead.

If you have to learn just one programming language

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It is a very good idea to learn several programming languages. It makes you a better programmer. But if you want to devote all your energies to becoming a proficient and productive programmer and want to learn one powerful, freely available, high level general-purpose language (not domain specific), what would you choose?