Archive for January, 2006
Looking back on “How Microsoft Lost the API War”
I was just browsing the web, looking for some info on Raymond Chen when I came across an old article written by Joel Spolsky that had been featured on Slashdot a while back. In Joel’s article, he writes: The old Microsoft, the Microsoft of Raymond Chen, might have implemented things like Avalon, the new graphics [...]
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Something everyone will enjoy. Ninja Training School Jason: It makes me want to be asian
Lambda Calculus
Lambda Calculus is one of those topics that a lot of undergrad comp sci students hear about, and sometimes read about, without actually understanding the significance. This is probably a result of the fact that lambda calculus, without context, seems completely useless. From a certain perspective, this is true. No modern programming language directly uses [...]
C needs (or may need) help
So, for work, I may have to brush up on my programming skills in C. C is a relatively powerful language. In fact, it’s powerful enough to really screw up the world if you want. I don’t object to C because it’s powerful though; I object to it because of its syntax: