Monthly Archive for January, 2012

The Origins of APL – 1974

Published on January 10, 2012 in Adin Falkoff, APL/J/K The Movie, CS Roots, History, IBM and Kenneth E Iverson. 0 Comments by aprogramminglanguage

I shared this video on Myspace on July 20, 2009 where it has received 4604 views as of today.

Kenneth E Iverson – Toronto Memorial November 18, 2004

Published on January 5, 2012 in APL/J/K The Movie, Eugene McDonnell, History, IBM, IPSA and Kenneth E Iverson. 2 Comments by aprogramminglanguage

Well, hot dang! Youtube decided I get more time. They sent me a note last week: Congratulations! You can upload videos longer than 15 mins. This is GREAT news and I’m celebrating by uploading the synopsis of Ken Iverson’s Toronto memorial service I made back in 2004 when I first fell in love with my video camera.

Happy New Year! The 2011 Photo Array!

Published on January 1, 2012 in 1010Data, APL/J/K The Movie, Chapel Hill, IPSA, K, Manitoulin Island, New York, Ontario Canada, Prof Fred Brooks, Reuters and Richard Lathwell. 0 Comments Tags: Kx.by aprogramminglanguage

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I’m looking forward to a 2012 that is just as fast paced as 2011. And for whatever it’s worth, I didn’t blog as much as I did last year which is something you will notice in this post of photos. Yes indeed, a picture is worth 1000 words.

In fact, we only made 12 posts for 2011 and in spite of this low showing, my faithful readers, according to a report WordPress sent me last night:

This blog was viewed about 9,700 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

I’m thrilled! Rock on!

Happy New Year Everyone! Let’s kick some more ass in 2012.

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 […]
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