Monthly Archive for June, 2011

October 19, 2004

Published on June 17, 2011 in APL/J/K The Movie and Kenneth E Iverson. 3 Comments by aprogramminglanguage

Where were you October 19, 2004?

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Enough said

Published on June 16, 2011 in APL/J/K The Movie and New York. 0 Comments by aprogramminglanguage

I’ve said enough on the matter. For now.

America!

Published on June 15, 2011 in 1010Data, APL/J/K The Movie, convergence, fun, IBM, K, New York and Parallell Processing. 0 Comments by aprogramminglanguage

It took forever to get through immigration and I’m having a really bad hair day (sorry Monica) – BUT AMERICA HERE I AM.

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April 15, 1989

Published on June 7, 2011 in APL/J/K The Movie, History, memory and self referencing. 7 Comments Tags: Michael S Montalbano.by aprogramminglanguage

Where were you April 15, 1989?

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November 27, 1966

Published on June 2, 2011 in APL/J/K The Movie, History and memory. 1 Comment by aprogramminglanguage

Where were you November 27, 1966?

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CJL Boots the Rules

@Rex_Ford good to know. I might need help raising funds for my doc. That would wake up some folks, don'tcha think? 5 days ago
@secrettrial5 can't wait to hear how the trip to Ottawa went! Where is the report? :) 5 days ago
http://t.co/VmFUJyV5 hey Toronto did you realize the high park zoo survived two worlds wars and the great depression? 3 weeks ago
@opticverve I do! Can't wait to look on the big screen! http://t.co/mmJnwzMc 4 weeks ago

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Axis of eval

Yet another Kernel interpreter February 13, 2012
I wrote another Kernel-ish interpreter in JavaScript: Virtua.This time, no tail-call optimization or first-class continuations, just plain old pedestrian control flow: LOOP, CATCH, THROW, UNWIND-PROTECT (unexpectedly, this didn't make the interpreter much smaller than the one with TCO and continuations.)Probably the only interesting thing in there is th […]
Manuel Simoni
Algebraic Data Types February 2, 2012
Reading this incredibly insightful article The Algebra of Data, and the Calculus of Mutation finally drove home the point to me why FP folks are so in love with their Algebraic Data Types: they connect wonderfully with very old (think B.C.) mathematical ideas - that every one of us has learned in school. The question is still whether that does make them good […]
Manuel Simoni
Fun with Kernel January 20, 2012
Smug Kernel Weenies - known to be even smugger than Smug Lisp Weenies - are advised to check out Dale Schumacher's series on Kernel:Fexpr the Ultimate LambdaSemantic Extensibility with VauMutable Objects in KernelBesides vau (known as the Wow Combinator by fans, Frankenexpressions by critics), that unifies functions and (hygienic) macros in a single con […]
Manuel Simoni

S. Padua (Lovelace & Babbage)

Happy Valentines Day from 2dGoggles.. February 14, 2012
Now I feel bad I didn’t have time to do a Babbage one.. but this was decidedly impromptu! Click for bigger.. As a bonus– adorable Valentines New Yorker cover, 1961– when the stereotypical programmer was a woman. […]
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Many Happy Returns of the Day, Mr. Dickens! February 7, 2012
Many happy returns of the day, Mr. Dickens! I am sure we are all spending this bicentenary eating gruel, fitfully walking the streets at midnight, drinking punch, speaking in thousand-word paragraphs interrupted by semi-colons; constructing elaborate book-length metaphors winding like dark trash-strewn rivers through a metropolis of words; enduring unspeakab […]
sydney

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