Structural insight

Monday, December 26, 2011

Preface to Homer

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But of the tree of the knowledge of good and euill, thou ſhalt not eate of it: for in the day that thou eateſt thereof, thou ſhalt ſurely d...
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Friday, December 9, 2011

The trouble with monads

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IT was six men of Indostan     To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant &nbsp   (Though all of them were blind), That...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Rhyming in US politics

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Just a small structural insight into US politics (as advertised ). Republicans in Congress have allowed their agenda to be set by President ...
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Monday, November 14, 2011

Where do types come from?

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[On the phone] There's a man here with some sort of a parasite on his arm, assimilating his flesh at a frightening speed.  I may have to...
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Allowing and disallowing

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Here are two problems in programming language design that are often treated as if they had to be traded off against each other.  I've fo...
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Saturday, June 4, 2011

Primacy of syntax

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One of the most influential papers in the history of computer science is Christopher Strachey's 1967 "Fundamental Concepts in Progr...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Dangerous things should be difficult to do by accident

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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...
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