Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
20mar2007
Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software, full-text PDF available.
Summer of Code 2007 Ideas for Ruby.
CCCeBit 2007: Verantwortung für den Bundestrojaner abgelehnt, “Beim diesjährigen Versuch des Chaos Computer Club (CCC), dem Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Nordrhein-Westfalen ein symbolisches Trojanisches Pferd zu überreichen, stießen die verblüfften Chaoten auf einen leeren Stand.” Feiglinge!
Highrise has been launched.
Now, I want you to know that while we watched,
You discover there was no one true.
Most ev’rybody really thought
It was a childish thing to do.
— Bob Dylan, Tears Of Rage
The Great Lua Language, Michael Neumann found out what Lua means in Hawaiian. Hehehe.
Grids are Good (PDF, 8.3 Mb), Khoi Vinh’s and Mark Boulton’s grid talk from SXSW 2007. Highly recommended.
Greek Gods Family Tree, most important: Chaos. Surely the old Greek didn’t like to clean up their rooms.
A One Word Meta Compiler, one of the finest Forth achievements ever.
Vista Smalltalk: In Browser, Lisp Syntax, it’s nice how the syntax can be unified.
Joining Sun, Ian Murdock goes Sun.
Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (PDF), John Backus’ Turing lecture.
I know what you words can mean
Call me call me any anytime
Call me for a ride
Call me call me for some overtime
Call me in my life
— Blondie, Call Me
John Backus has passed away, sad to hear. His work on functional languages like FP must not be forgotten, and the liberation from von Neumann style is still in progress.
Expressing untested and untestable constraints in Schematron, by Rick Jelliffe. Not many testing things support these declarations.
Adventures in Real Estate, I want a house-in-the-sky too!
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