{"id":211,"date":"2003-04-08T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-09T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2003-04-08T12:51:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-09T02:51:00","slug":"pointers-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2003\/04\/08\/pointers-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/compsoc.dur.ac.uk\/whitespace\/\">Whitespace<\/a> &#8211; a programming language using only whitespace characters. There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/compsoc.dur.ac.uk\/whitespace\/tutorial.php\">tutorial<\/a>, some <a href=\"http:\/\/compsoc.dur.ac.uk\/whitespace\/examples.php\">sample code<\/a>, and&nbsp;an interpreter written in Hascal. And no, you can&#8217;t generate managed assemblies yet. # <\/p>\n<p>Interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/printedition\/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1682086\">article<\/a> in The Economist on quantum computers&nbsp;and programming language design&nbsp;(this was via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashdot.org\/\">Slashdot<\/a>, I think). The paper it references is <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/cs\/0103009\">here<\/a>. # <\/p>\n<p>Bizarre. McDonalds is claiming, in newspaper adverts, that they&#8217;re going to start selling organic milk in the &#8220;restaurants&#8221;. Strange days indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whitespace &#8211; a programming language using only whitespace characters. There&#8217;s a tutorial, some sample code, and&nbsp;an interpreter written in Hascal. And no, you can&#8217;t generate managed assemblies yet. # Interesting article in The Economist on quantum computers&nbsp;and programming language design&nbsp;(this was via Slashdot, I think). The paper it references is here. # Bizarre. McDonalds is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2003\/04\/08\/pointers-31\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pointers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}