Alligator Eggs!

Alligator Eggs!
This is the funniest introduction to lambda-calculus ever. (saw it at #d channel at freenode)

Some things which happened while I wasn’t blogging

Haiku OS reported on their Google Summer of Code results
Makes me think, that I should really-really get some old mac-mini and install Haiku on it. At least, I can program some fancy Jukebox out of it

ohloh.net: The World’s Oldest Source Code Repositories
Hey! I was only 1 year old, when they started to use [...]

Unicode vs. Programming Languages

I really-really want to see a programming language, which allows using proper unicode symbols for operators.
I mean:

× instead of *
→ instead of ->
← instead if <-
≠ instrad of !=
≤ and ≥ instead of <= and >=

This list can be continued more and more…
I perfectly understand the roots of current situation and I don’t ask to [...]

BeOS + SmallTalk

Some internal feeling makes me believe, that Smalltalk would be an ideal language for Haiku-OS/OpenBeOS (which looks more and more alive, again).
BeOS was always about C++, opposing UNIX’es, MacOS’es and Windows’es choice of C (well, formally, windows had C++ api, but, still, it was very C-ish in it’s essence). Years passed, MacOS switched to Objective-C, [...]

D

Alan Knowles writes a lot of interesting articles about D language. I still wait for some project to appear, which will give me a reason to do something in D.
It looks so damn elegant