Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

30may2007

The Shape Of Your Mind, by Eric Merritt. “In many cases, the communities that form around languages are very similar to the insular communities that created these practices. To take this analogy one step further, in many ways programming languages act quite a lot like the devices used to shape the skulls of infants in Paracas, the feet of Han women or the necks of Karen Paduang women.”

Bush now banning photo journalism of wounded troops, WJW.

hillside light by babushka

When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up
When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?
— Bob Dylan, When You Gonna Wake Up

One Page Sites, there should be more of these.

Beej’s Guide to Unix Interprocess Communication, essential.

[tongue-in-cheek]As I don’t use scheme heavily this is serious armchair controversy, but as R6RS stands, I think a language rename to scherl or peme might be appropriate to include.[/tongue-in-cheek] — Brian McCallister, The R6RS Controversy

draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-15, hopefully last call.

keypad by Kickstart70

But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You’re gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody.
— Bob Dylan, Gotta Serve Somebody

Starting a new “Ruby Project Spotlight” series, Gregory Brown asks for submissions.

Type-sensitive control-flow analysis, by John Reppy. “Higher-order typed languages, such as ML, provide strong support for data and type abstraction. While such abstraction is often viewed as costing performance, there are situations where it may provide opportunities for more aggressive program optimization.”