I’m reading the GNU manifesto, and Stallman talks about adding:
read the whole post »“We plan to have…perhaps eventually a Lisp-based window system through which several Lisp programs and ordinary Unix programs can share a screen. Both C and Lisp will be available as system programming languages.” —RMS
I had the chance to meet Richard Stallman on Friday. He was speaking at the NA-CAP conference at which I volunteered. All in all, very interesting, and last night I ended up joining the FSF.
Call Stallman what you will: ideological, dogmatic, unwavering, stubborn, whatever. You have to give it ...
read the whole post »If you’re awake and you have cable, turn on C-SPAN2 and watch the historic all-night Senate session about Iraq. It really is quite interesting to see the Senators talking on their own without mass media spin. Unfortunately these things are usually only on during the day (though you can ...
read the whole post »It seems I’ve been in a LaTeX-chatter-whirlwind this past week: someone emailed me about TeX today, I discovered jsmath, this article was on reddit a few days back, and my boss and I were chatting about TeX on Friday. Since I haven’t actually been writing anything lately, I ...
read the whole post »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 ...
read the whole post »So it turns out that regular expressions in Ruby are totally sweet. They’re a nice language feature just like in Perl…except, not Perl. I was under the mistaken impression that the Ruby crowd was perhaps a bit too minimalist and academic to do something like this (not that ...
read the whole post »So things like Gears, Silverlight, and Apollo look like they’re here to simplify the development of rich internet application. We’ll be able to run our rich web apps on and off line. But aren’t we still talking about HTTP, the hyper text transfer protocol? Ultimately, the web ...
read the whole post »Several months ago I assigned my data structures students a little recursive puzzle as part of a somewhat longterm assignment. The assignment is due soon, and I thought I’d take some time to write up a solution in Lisp for my own enjoyment.
Now, I’ve been putzing around ...
read the whole post »Presentation software is linear; presentations are non-linear. Most of my ‘presentations’ are in the academic setting where I either lecture or give an overview of a project I’m working on. In either case, it is useful to evaluate the attention and interest of the audience and alter the presentation ...
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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).