Wednesday, February 12, 2003

Just wrote up an example of how to derive types from an O'Caml statement.
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." --GW Bush
Why a German jew did not flee Nazi Germany while he still could
"No man escapes when freedom fails; the best men rot in filthy jails. And those who cried, 'Appease! Appease!', are hanged by those they tried to please." --Horace Mann
Word of the day:
lacuna: An empty space or a missing part; a gap: “self-centered in opinion, with curious lacunae of astounding ignorance” (Frank Norris)
Seven Lessons from the ICFP Programming Contest
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Tuesday, February 11, 2003

"The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure." --Thomas Jefferson
"Software engineering (SE) has probably largest concentration of snake oil salesmen. Even object-oriented design cannot compete with SE ;-). Such "dynamic" figures as Yourdon, Ben Shneiderman and partially Gerard Weinberg... can change their own position twice a week, as they sense that something new becomes fashionable" Skeptical Software Engineering Bibliography
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Tutorial on Recursion Programming
Useless Movie Quotes
Diatribe On Programming Language Design Features
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