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

Tuesday, June 04, 2002

It's also a lot of fun to be playing around with functional languages like Lisp, Haskell, and OCaml. The CS curriculum at Chico State concentrates almost entirely on OO-style coursework using C++ or Java. Learning Lisp and Haskell is introducing me to an entirely different style of programming - makes me feel excited about coding. Maybe I should make one last switch in my thesis topic? 4:38:48 PM    comment []

Mirek's Cellebration is addicting - if you ever spent more time than you should have staring at the screen while the Game of Life ran, you will experience an extreme productivity drop while you walk through the pattern library included with Mirek's. 11:22:10 AM    comment []

Paul Graham: "If you design a language that has car, cdr, cons, quote, eq, cond, and a notation for functions made of conses, then you've designed a dialect of Lisp, even if you didn't mean to." 8:24:35 AM    comment []