Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
14aug2006
On following rules, what about breaking metarules? Oh no…
Numerical Recipes in C, book on-line.
libbitap, a clean implementation of Sun Wu and Udi Manber’s bitap algorithm.
The bitap algorithm is a fuzzy string searching algorithm developed by Udi Manber and Sun Wu in 1991 based on work done by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Gaston Gonnet.
MetaBorg is a method for providing concrete syntax for domain abstractions to application programmers. The method consists of embedding domain-specific languages in a general purpose host language and assimilating the embedded domain code into the surrounding host code. Indeed, MetaBorg can be considered a method for promoting APIs to the language level.
grml 0.8: codename Funkenzutzler is released, your favourite console-focused Linux live distribution.
Learning Haskell itself is easy—I’ve done it several times already. — Larry Wall
Dagstuhl Seminar 06181: Latently-Typed Languages, material is online. How the fuck could I miss that? :/
The trouble with rounding floating point numbers, there are still people that don’t know about this? Sheesh.
Data Parallel Haskell is the codename for an extension to the Glasgow Haskell Compiler and its libraries to support nested data parallelism with a focus to utilise multi-core CPUs.
When I was 19, I told a friend that I could program anything. The next
20 years have seen life bent on proving me wrong.
— Ovid
People of Perl: Ovid, interview by Bit-Man. Full of lovely quotes, e.g. “I’m watching Rails not for what it can do, but for what it’s marketing can teach us.”
The Art of the Grilled Ham and Cheese Sandwich, “Sex is like a cheese sandwich. You have it every day and you’re like ‘Ugh, cheese sandwich’. Go without it for a week and when you have it it’s the greatest sandwich in the world”.
The GHC typechecker is Turing-complete, proof by Robert Dockins. WJW, but then, C++ templates are too.
Proceedings of Extreme Markup Languages 2006, hours of fun.
Holy cow, it works!, Dan Sugalski got his Tornado VM running. “Woo!” And where’s the source? :-)
ruby-wmii 0.3.1: bookmark manager, generalized menus, view history…, new release of Mauricio’s window manager.
Autorequire is Basically Gone, Everyone, must-read. And please
avoid the require_gems, too. (I’ve never seen them qualified
in real code, anyway.)
Tropf, tropf, tropf, Du Regentag
Tick, tick, tick, die Uhr geht nach
Klopf, klopf, klopf, wer ist denn da?
Klopf, klopf, klopf, ahh!
— Ton Steine Scherben, Regentag
Buildbot!, want to host one for the aspiring Haskell implementation YHC?
Early J sources, finally some APL dialect I’ve managed to run on my iBook. (Mail me for patches.)
A Celebration of Kenneth Iverson (1920-2004), video of an evening hosted by the Computer History Museum. Featuring a joke around minute 29:00 that I’d never tell before an audience. Oh well. Contains few technical things, but lots of nice quotes, jokes and anecdotes.
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