anthony lorelli
With No Definite Future And No Purpose Other Than To Prevail Somehow ...[The Mermen, A Glorious Lethal Euphoria]

Tuesday, May 14, 2002

Usenet comp.lang.* Traffic Evolution. Java generates a lot of posts. Posts on comp.lang.cobol peaked in 1999 and 2000 (remember W2K bug?!) Perl traffic is declining (maybe the documentation is so good that... :) [Lambda the Ultimate] Also note that the average number of posts to the Ada, Forth, and Scheme newsgroups has generally been rising over the past several years - and check out that spike for Ruby! 3:59:59 PM    comment []

Nice post describing the history and accomplishments of the EROS system. 10:47:50 AM    comment []

Just renewed my ACM membership, which reminded me...more than once I've seen someone suggest a "hippocratic oath" for programmers (see this Slashdot posting for a recent example). ACM has had exactly this - a professional code of ethics and conduct - for a long time (my electronic copy of Horowitz and Sahni's Fundamentals of Data Structures, ninth printing circa 1981, has a copy of the Code of Conduct in an appendix). 10:18:24 AM    comment []