Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
09jul2008
ARG_MAX, maximum length of arguments for a new process, fun.
Zoology, “That is, zoos are decoy environments, referring to absent landscapes elsewhere. If this act of reference is read, or interpreted correctly, by the non-human species for whom the landscape has been constructed, then you have a successful zoo.”
Boredom hills you are dear to me now
The ultimate shot of random procedure
— The Moonbabies, Fieldtrip Usa
K as a Prototyping Language, good, practical overview by Dennis Shasha.
New Otto malloc helps spot ancient bugs, Otto Moerbeek (otto@) recently found and fixed an ancient bug (some 33 years old) in yacc(1). Yay.
Handwritten Typographers, Cameron Adams asked ten typographers to send in a handwritten piece.
We’re the Angels and the Darlas,
and in time we’ll be syndicated too.
But for now,
there’s not a door that you can close and we,
we can’t creep through.
— Say Hi To Your Mom, Angels And Darlas
Differentiating regions, cool.
Automating Functional Program Transformation, MSc thesis by Markus Mottl. “We present a framework for automatic program transformation of a strict and pure functional language with a well-defined semantics. It will be shown that such a framework can be implemented most declaratively and concisely in a recently developed higher-order logic programming language called LambdaProlog.” Awesome stuff.