Friday, January 07, 2005

An IBM Developerworks article on using Linked Lists in C and comparing it do doing list management in Scheme: Better Programming through effective List Handling. 2:58:28 PM

It's supposed to be summer in New Zealand, where I am. Over the last week or two we've had a month of rain in a day, Icebergs appearing, extended ski seasons, tornadoes, frost and hail. Crazy. A few of the recent floods have been called 'one in hundred year'floods. We've had so many of these it seems that they're trying to justify why they still call them that: The100-year flood that hit the Waikanae River yesterday could not becompared to the massive floods that devastated large parts of the lowerNorth Island almost a year ago, he said.   The100-year estimate applied only to the precise area where it wasmeasured and the Waikanae River did not suffer a 100-year flood lastyear. Itwas a statistical blip that nearby Paekakariki recorded a 125-yearflood in October 2003, and Kapiti Coast residents should not beconcerned they would be hit by such massive floods more often infuture, he said. I'm guessing the person who said that doesn't live in the Kapiti Coast. 1:37:39 PM