I finally download the “Simple Gifts” theme from Copland’s Appalachian Spring ballet today. Based on a shaker tune which was transformed into the “Lord of the Dance” hymn all us Catholic schoolchildren sang, it may be a bit on the hokey side. Nevertheless, it is one of my favorite ...
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Exploring Python and Lisp by writing a simple s-expression parser from scratch.
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It’s called bottom up programming, the foundation of which is small composeable methods.
This is of course the most important lesson to take from Lisp and its Lispy friend Smalltalk, and in this recent posting, Ramon Leon discusses the relationship between the Smalltalk code/method browsers and ...
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One of the things I’ve always been unclear on is how a server binds to particular address. This became apparent today in my erlang-in-lisp work with iolib and erlang itself. I had been messing around with distributing the ping-pong example last week and things were not going as smoothly ...
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Today’s my birthday, and I think this is the first time it has ever snowed on my birthday (where I was, at least).software quality
A simple flowchart regarding software quality.
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Python 3 and its nonlocal keyword.
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The importance of the Afferro Public License in the age of web services.
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I just committed the last touches on some pretty major changes in the erlang-in-lisp epmd branch. I was distracted from my linking/registering work on Tuesday by the fragility of the original design. I had an idea to use CLOS and hoped this would help achieve our goals of pluggable ...
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In kindergarten we’d sometimes have to stay inside for recess because of the weather. When this happened the teacher would occasionally play the ‘popcorn song’ and make us dance. It was a great song. I heard it today on NPR, and a quick googling brought up: http://www.popcorn-song ...
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