August 23, 2010 • 2:02 pm 6
I have hacked around with node.js over the past month. One of the hardest things to get right with a new platform / language / framework / api is the balance between exposing powerful abstractions and keeping the interface clean and minimal. This is something Unix manges to do really well as opposed to Java or Perl. Node makes a decent stab at both.
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Filed under: Computer Science, Programming
January 1, 2010 • 2:52 am 1
Happy New Year !
Its been a fantastic few weeks of Haskell so far. I had hoped to write about it more frequently, but that hasn’t happened.
Filed under: Computer Science, Haskell, Programming
October 15, 2009 • 8:24 am 2
I am in the middle of rethinking my personal research and to that end debating about how much of my current reading list I should stick to. Here is what I have planned for the next couple of months:
Filed under: Books, Computer Science, DEK, Google, Mathematics, Rants
October 11, 2009 • 4:34 am 10
I have been looking at various options for learning a new secondary programming language (Primary still being “C”) in the past few weeks. The main intent is having a lot fun, exploring new concepts and maybe switch to it in the very distant future. Python was a LOT of fun, powerful, partly gives me a day job and so on, but I haven’t been able to do anything profoundly new with it in the last few months. I have looked at Erlang, Haskell and Scala so far (Functional Programming and Concurrency were big motivators).
Filed under: Computer Science, Programming
August 17, 2009 • 2:01 am 1
It might not be a theory of consciousness involving microtubules and pink butterflies – But I recently chanced upon Godel Machines which might very well be a way to make your own version of Skynet at home.
Filed under: Computer Science
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