Ken Shirriff's blog

I was recently reading The Little Schemer , a very intersting book about how to think in Scheme. The book uses a unique question-response ...

When using the Arc REPL, I've often wanted to edit a previous line. Python lets you access and edit lines using the arrow keys, so why ...

I came across a thread on reddit about why you shouldn't write your own encryption algorithm . In it, one person presented a homegrown...

I've been experimenting with QR codes (2-d bar codes) with my mobile phone. While helping my daughter assemble a Lego® spaceship, I ha...

Java is very much in full retreat. -- R. Loui Professor Ronald Loui has an interesting article on the rise of scripting languages ( In Pr...

The total world's population of Haskell programmers fits in a 747. And if that goes down, nobody would even notice. -- Erik Meijer I ...

A recent post quotes Alan Kay's statement that expressing Lisp in itself is the " Maxwell's Equations of Software ": Ye...