Structural insight

Last night I drifted off while reading a Lisp book. — xkcd 224 . It's finally registered on me that much of the past half century o...

...if you cannot say what you mean, you can never mean what you say. — Centauri Minister of Intelligence, Babylon 5 . Ever since I star...

One of the most influential papers in the history of computer science is Christopher Strachey's 1967 "Fundamental Concepts in Progr...

Although this is a key principle for design in general —scarcely behind supporting what the system is being designed to do— I'm mainly i...

Fexpr is a noun.  It's pronounced FEKSper .  A fexpr is a procedure that acts on the syntax of its operands, rather than on the values ...