Engineer at the Heroku API team here: we went with the simplest approach to generate app names, which is basically what you suggested: keep arrays of adjectives and nouns in memory, pick an element from each at random and combine it with a random number from 1000 to 9999. Not the most thrilling code I’ve … Read more
It comes from the English word ‘let’. verb: “let”, “letting”. 1. to allow or permit: // Hey computer, can you please let // this night=”wonderful” Lisp has the keyword let and it’s been around since 1958, though it may have come from even earlier.
Download Wikipedia Unzip it and write a quick filter program that spits out only article text (the download is generally in XML format, along with non-article metadata too). Find all instances of a(n)…. and make an index on the following word and all of its prefixes (you can use a simple suffixtrie for this). This … Read more