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Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Our new location (not active yet!)
Our new address is going to be http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ This link currently points to a static file while we finalize the details of the software platform to replace Manila, and try to provide all the features you've come to rely on when using LtU. If you want to help, especially if you have experience with Drupal, let us know. Posted to admin by Ehud Lamm on 6/16/04; 1:52:49 PM Discuss

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Be advised
See here for some details about weblogs.com and LtU in particular. More information, as soon as I have it. Posted to admin by Ehud Lamm on 6/15/04; 1:59:19 PM Discuss (1 response)

Anders Hejlsberg - Tour through computing industry history at the Microsoft Museum
Nice tour. Anders talks about Delphi and Turbo Pascal (did you know there was a Unix version?) Posted to history by Ehud Lamm on 6/15/04; 5:29:09 AM Discuss

Monday, June 14, 2004

EuroPython'2004 Slides

Mostly technical presentations that are uninteresting from our perspective. However two presentations may be of interest. Guido's presentation outlines the future of Python as he sees it. It includes a discussion of generator expressions. How Python is developed by Marc-Andre Lemburg provides a nice overview of the Python design process. Posted to Python by Ehud Lamm on 6/14/04; 1:06:07 PM Discuss (1 response)

No new items?
One reason LtU is so quiet is that the site was behaving very badly recently. I hope to have a solution soon. Another reason is that it seems no one has published exciting new results recently... Or am I mistaken? Let me know using the discussion group. Posted to general by Ehud Lamm on 6/14/04; 7:40:33 AM Discuss (3 responses)

Sunday, June 13, 2004

Extensible Code Generation with Java

Via Chad Fowler. A two part series describes code generation using java and xsl. I started this article by saying that code generation was important and it was something that you need to understand. Why is that? It's not just because today's frameworks are code-intensive. It's also because the code that generators build is far more consistent in form and quality than hand code. I've done a fair bit of code generation for various purposes but I can't help but think that much of the need for using the technique lies with the facilities of the language. Ran across an opinion a while back that took the extreme POV: Blanchard's law: Systems that require code generation lack sufficient power to tackle the problem at hand. My opinion probably lies somewhere in between: code generation is a useful programming approach but it many times indicates a fault in the underlying programming language to capture the necessary abstractions. (of course, the lines between compiler, interpreter and code generation are rather blurry). Posted to general by Chris Rathman on 6/13/04; 9:24:54 PM Discuss (3 responses)

An Introduction to the XQuery (and XPath 2.0) Type System: The Impact on XQuery and XPath
A fairly high level introduction. Posted to xml by Ehud Lamm on 6/13/04; 2:16:25 AM Discuss

Friday, June 11, 2004

Meta Math - new Chaitin Book
I think this is new - it appears to be coming out as a paper book next year and has just been reviewed on Slashdot. It looks like a "popular" intro to his work. (We've discussed Chaitin before). Posted to fun by andrew cooke on 6/11/04; 12:40:04 PM Discuss (2 responses)

Slow News Day: How About Some Benchmarks?

No one seems to be posting much today. Therefore, to help generate sufficient bilious humours for an invigorating discussion, I suggest all interested parties visit the revamped "The Great Computer Language Shootout" to see the current scores. Now at last we can have meaningful, objective measurements to decide what the best programming language is! :-) Posted to fun by Brent Fulgham on 6/11/04; 12:39:56 PM Discuss (2 responses)

Wednesday, June 9, 2004

Robert Kowalski's publications
Quite a lot of interesting things are online. Among them Logic for Problem Solving a book originally published by North-Holland in 1979 which is now out of print. Posted to logic/declarative by Ehud Lamm on 6/9/04; 4:02:27 AM Discuss