Ken Shirriff's blog

The recent arc3 release of Arc includes news.arc , the Arc source code for the Hacker News forum . Examining this code can give some insig...

The long-awaited new update of Arc (arc3) has been made available . I've examined the release to determine what's new in arc3 beyon...

If you've programmed in Arc, you've probably noticed that the error messages are often cryptic at best. Error handling is a major ...

Since I've been hearing good things about the F# language from various people, I wanted to give it a try, but I wasn't interested in...

A couple months ago I went to a French cafe at the Denver airport. Outside the restaurant was a large rotating menu, clearly costly to manu...

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 ...