Independently from my decision to revisit Haskell, some colleagues here have just started a discussion group to learn the language. I hope I'll have time: I enjoyed my brief dalliance with it in 2003.
One of my Dublin colleagues has a copy of Thompson’s book, Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming so I'll steal that when […]
Some wonderful person (I can't believe it was me) made me a .initrc file for my work home directory. It contained one line:
set mark-directories off
I wouldn't press you to go out and copy me, for its effect is to stop tab-completion from putting the trailing / onto a completed directory name, so you have to […]
I've taken to using the overflow car park at work, which is so large it can be seen from space!. It also happens to be a whole two minute walk from the office. "What has this to do with the price of Peruvian cheese?!", I hear you cry. Well, as it happens, we have a […]
I occasionally like to pretend that I write in Scheme. It’s a language I very much admire. However, I tried the other day to write a reduce function in Scheme and was surprised and annoyed that certain language features were missing. I really miss pattern matching and partial application whenever I write Scheme. Maybe I […]
This posting is mostly a retrospective on my time in Mountain View and how it compares with the UK.
Firstly, America is a great shock to the old-world me. The stunning regularity of the grid system, even in small "cities" such as Mountain View. Not that Mountain View is actually a real city. It has virtually […]