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Sunday, March 13, 2022

Pugofer → Pug → ?

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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...
Sunday, March 6, 2022

A Fairy Tale And a Bridge

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Momma: Dr. Einstein, What should my lil boy read so that he becomes like you? Einstein: Read him fairy tales Momma : ! 😯!!😯!!! In this pos...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

The ‘User’ and Technology

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1 Introduction [This post is mostly for my students] I had mentioned in the class that you are graded along three dimensions By ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Mechanism Romanticism and the Origins of the Computer

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Guest Article: Reposted with thanks The story of The origins of the electronic computer… as it is most frequently told, is an engag...
Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Tips for Emacs Beginners

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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...
Monday, July 4, 2016

A Little 25 year old Functional Parser Gem

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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 ...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Break is goto in disguise

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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...
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Saturday, January 16, 2016

The Law of Primacy

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I consider the absolute worst programming construct to be subroutine or the function.          Cleo Saulnier   Hello?!?! Why pay attenti...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Celebration of Obsolescence

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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...
Friday, January 1, 2016

How Long?

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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...
Friday, July 31, 2015

Faith and Rats, Gödel and Computer Science

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Computer scientists dismiss Gödel as mathematics Mathematicians classify Gödel as logic Logicians slot Gödel into meta-mathematics Met...
Monday, June 15, 2015

Richard O'Keefe's responses to FP Timeline

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Richard O'Keefe of Otago whose quote I started FP Timeline with, wrote me some rather detailed comments about history which have intere...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Functional Programming: A Moving Target

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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 ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Functional Programming: A Timeline

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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...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Between Poverty and Universality lies Structure

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