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There is an essay, The Art of Lisp & Writing by Richard Gabriel. It’s long, but like all of Gabriel’s essays it is worth reading if you’re interested in exploring...
Read ArticleThomas Watson from IBM said that he could foresee a need for perhaps five computers worldwide, and we now know that that figure was wrong, because he overestimated by four....
Read ArticleAs a lazy functional language Haskell has to provide automatic currying of all functions. But once you’ve tried to use a functional language that doesn’t automatically curry you realise this...
Read ArticleI was never entirely happy with using the Blogger editing box in a web browser for an entire, long post. It’s in a browser, where the slightest click or accidental...
Read ArticleI read quite a few blogs, on different topics, but there is (obviously) a whole bunch of computing ones in there. I read some of the big name ones, like...
Read ArticleAs I work on Shrew and attempt to learn more about Scheme, I’ve been doing some reading. And in one of my books I had one of those ‘Aha!’ moments...
Read ArticleSo the big deal is mashups and the massive amounts of data collected by the services being mashed. And this is becoming known as ‘Megadata’. Lots and lots you can...
Read ArticleThere’s nothing like writing a complex application in a language for really learning it. I’ve been able to read and write small pieces of Scheme for years. And I’ve known...
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