Daniel Gregoire

Introducing a new website, GoalProgramming.info, with documentation, cheat sheet, and example Goal code.

Small rays of sunshine: short array language programs that spark joy.

What is the Goal programming language?

When I was young, my mother often repeated: "If you don't have something nice/kind to say, don't say anything at all."

K REPL session to define an upper case function.

Leveraging these mathematical patterns with arrays as the central data structure leads to largely loopless and branchless programs, in which algorithms are distilled to a series of progressive array transformations.

The Julia programming language recently delighted me with its error message when I tried to concatenate strings.

PiLisp's pl> macro for threading expressions.

PiLisp—An interpreted Lisp inspired by Clojure

Writing small languages for enjoyment

Exploration of function arity in Clojure

One domain's metadata is another domain's data.

Pollen is a language and set of tools implemented in Racket that support writing documents as programs.

Clojure encourages open systems.

Clojure's destructuring helps us establish bindings to items in Clojure collections in a concise, intuitive way.

We often gain an understanding of how a code base works by making changes to it and observing the effects.

As I've worked on personal software projects and contemplated how I want to capture knowledge, develop ideas, and build things, I have come to a conclusion that I want the following environment in which to do this work: