Lambda the Ultimate

This is the inaugural edition of Code Reads, a weekly discussion of some of the central essays, documents and texts in the history of software. This week we're talking about Frederick Brooks's The Mythical Man-Month. (OK, let's be honest: I'm talking about it. I'm hoping you, or you, or you, may want to, as well!

This is an ongoing series with Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" coming up. This essay was mentioned here a few times, of course, so you might want to check the archives.

This item is not directly language related, but since you can win prizes, I thought I'd better let you guys know..

Slightly politcal, but the boingboing commentary is simply hilarious from a PL point of view.

From my perspective the joke is on a deeper level. You see, it's simply that C is torture.