Sunday, March 16, 2003

Don Knuth finally sold out.
Three Sins of Authors in Computer Science and Math
Word of the day:
desideratum: Something considered necessary or highly desirable
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"A program generator (a meta-program) solves a particular problem by constructing another program (an object-program) that solves the problem at hand. Usually the generated (object) program is "specialized" for the particular problem and uses less resources than a general purpose, non-generator solution..." --Taxonomy of meta-programming systems
Unlambda: Your Functional Programming Language Nightmares Come True
TWiki, a flexible, powerful, and simple, secure, Web-based collaboration platform
Cameron Laird's personal notes on language comparisons