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The Return of the Native: part 3 — Being a Tourist

We had an amazing trip to Skye over a six-day period in October. By car, it’s a two-day trip each way although that does allow for stops…

4 min readNov 9, 2023

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The Return of the Native: part 3 — Being a Tourist

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Robin Hillyard

The Return of the Native: Part 2

Hard to believe, but more than one month of our twelve has already passed and we’re only just feeling somewhat settled in. We did have…

5 min readOct 17, 2023

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Erithacus Rubecula

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The Return of the Native

“ASaturday afternoon in November…”

4 min readSep 10, 2023

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The Oxford Canal

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Robin Hillyard

The Sherlock Holmes Guide to Programming, Debugging, and Performance Tuning

Three useful guidelines for good programming and systematic debugging.

6 min readJul 31, 2023

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The Sherlock Holmes Guide to Programming, Debugging, and Performance Tuning

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Robin Hillyard

Scala’s versatile unapply method

Preparing some code for my latest batch of Scala students, I wrote a Scala FizzBuzz. The straightforward, obvious, way to write the…

2 min readJan 7, 2023

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I agree with your premise, but I believe you don't go far enough.

1 min readAug 17, 2022

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Many many years ago, I had problem in FORTRAN which took me a very long time to find.

1 min readJul 25, 2022

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The Arbitrary Substitution Principle

The Arbitrary Substitution Principle (ASP) relates to code such that, if you changed the order of the terms of an expression, the code…

4 min readJan 26, 2022

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The Arbitrary Substitution Principle

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An identifier, by any other name, …

There are times when it’s obvious what we should call a variable or method parameter:

4 min readOct 31, 2021

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An identifier, by any other name, …

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Fuzzy, lazy, functional numeric computing in Scala

This is the third and (thankfully) the last of my articles on Number, an open-source library of things numerical. The previous articles…

5 min readAug 31, 2021

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Fuzzy, lazy, functional numeric computing in Scala

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Robin Hillyard

Robin Hillyard

I’ve been addicted to programming for over 50 years now. I currently teach two classes to graduates at Northeastern University, Boston, USA.

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