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It was a rainy July day of 1993. My just-graduated student, Anuradha strode into the — at that time — ramshackle PU building with a mischie...

Momma: Dr. Einstein, What should my lil boy read so that he becomes like you? Einstein: Read him fairy tales Momma : ! 😯!!😯!!! In this pos...

1 Introduction [This post is mostly for my students] I had mentioned in the class that you are graded along three dimensions By ...

Guest Article: Reposted with thanks The story of The origins of the electronic computer… as it is most frequently told, is an engag...

Emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and b...

1 Intro When I was playing around inside Mark Jones' gofer sources in the early 90s I saw this piece of commented C code. The code ...

On the python list there was a discussion about break .  I made the comment that break is just a euphemism for goto .  I thought that this...

I consider the absolute worst programming construct to be subroutine or the function.          Cleo Saulnier   Hello?!?! Why pay attenti...

Today is 13 Jan 2016, 150 years from the birth of G I Gurdjieff Here's something I had written for a 13th Jan some years ago as my und...

It takes 100 years for an idea to go from inception to general acceptance. Dijkstra[1] When I first read this I thought it alarming. Th...

Computer scientists dismiss Gödel as mathematics Mathematicians classify Gödel as logic Logicians slot Gödel into meta-mathematics Met...

Richard O'Keefe of Otago whose quote I started FP Timeline with, wrote me some rather detailed comments about history which have intere...

In my last post, I gave a functional programming time line in the last 50 years. Now I'll look at two things: The place of functional ...

Rob Hagan at Monash had shown that you could teach students more Cobol with one semester of Scheme and one semester of Cobol than you coul...

Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a b...