#228 – September 10, 2017
Writing a sqlite clone from scratch in C.
JOIN Elimination: An Essential Optimiser Feature for Advanced SQL Usage
The SQL language has one great advantage over procedural, object oriented, and “ordinary” functional programming languages. The fact that it is truly declarative (i.e. a 4GL / fourth generation programming language) means that a sophisticated optimiser can easily transform one SQL expression into another, equivalent SQL expression, which might be faster to execute.
Building a compiler for your own language
In this post we are going to see how process and transform the information obtained from the parser. The ANTLR parser recognizes the elements present in the source code and build a parse tree. From the parse tree we will obtain the Abstract Syntax Tree which we will use to perform validation and produce compiled code.
The Incredible Growth of Python
In this post, we’ll explore the extraordinary growth of the Python programming language in the last five years, as seen by Stack Overflow traffic within high-income countries. The term “fastest-growing” can be hard to define precisely, but we make the case that Python has a solid claim to being the fastest-growing major programming language.
Hackers send silent commands to speech recognition systems with ultrasound
Security researchers in China have invented a clever way of activating voice recognition systems without speaking a word. By using high frequencies inaudible to humans but which register on electronic microphones, they were able to issue commands to every major “intelligent assistant” that were silent to every listener but the target device.