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Google Print (and Computable Functions)

LtU-ers should be aware of google's new Google Print initiative to digitize books and support full text searches.

To get a feel for the new service, and for the sake of the subject matter itself, you might want to take a look at the book Computable Functions by Nikolai Konstantinovich Vereshchagin, Neal Noah Madras.

By Ehud Lamm at 2004-10-09 11:47 | Misc Books | 1 comment | other blogs | 5719 reads

JotSpot

A more remrkable example of a Wiki backed by a Wiki specific DSL.

The guided tours on Jotspot's website aren't very useful. I recommend viewing Jon Udell's discussion cum demo with the Jotspot guys.

The most important point for PL types is the notion of programmability. The world is going in that direction, and this should work to our advantage guys... Language design is becoming more mainstream, but it's still hard work that requires good linguistic intuition.

It seems that the Jotspot guys are aware of this trend, seeing as they talk about "part time programmers".

By Ehud Lamm at 2004-10-09 12:23 | DSL | 2 comments | other blogs | 5911 reads

Succ Zeroth International Obfuscated Haskell Code Contest Results

See the results!


Winners by Category:



Best overall entry

UlfNorell with MetaSteganoGraphicObfuscation



Best Abuse of Compiler Specific Features and Best Signature Sized Entry

DonSteward with Crawl



Most Useful submission

JeremyGibbons with PiSpigot



Thanks to everyone who entered! Please enter again next year!

By shapr at 2004-10-09 20:36 | LtU Forum | 4 comments | other blogs | 7237 reads