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 . . . →Read More:Some things which happened while I wasn’t blogging

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 . . . →Read More:Unicode vs. Programming Languages

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 . . . →Read More:BeOS + SmallTalk

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

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