The term “object oriented programming” has degraded to the point where I no longer take self proclaimed OOP enthusiasts seriously. I don’t believe they know what they’re talking about … unless they bring up something … anything … about Smalltalk. If you don’t have a clue about what makes me go soft upon the mere mention of Smalltalk, check out this 1987 video demo of the Alternate Reality Kit. Makes you wish you had that on an iPad today doesn’t it?
Primes - Go vs. Haskell
Recently, a friend of mine pointed out a concurrent implementation of Eratosthenes’ prime sieve expressed in google’s Go programming language. I couldn’t resist trying a Haskell version of that same approach.
Randall Munroe (Xkcd) Likes These
Recently, Randall Munroe held a guest week where some of his favourite cartoonists drew for him on xkcd. (RM was going through a family illness.) I love xkcd, so I got curious about what RM likes and decided to jot down links to all of them I could find. Here they are –
- xkcd – A tribute link to the ever brilliant RM.
- Zach Weiner – Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
- Jeffrey Rowland – Overcompensating
- Bill Amend – Foxtrot
- David Troupes – Buttercup Festival
- Jeph Jacques – Questionable Content
- Ryan North – Dinosaur Comics
- E Horne and J Comeau – A Softer World
- Nicholas Gurewich – The Perry Bible Fellowship
- Kazu Kibuishi – Cooper
- Chris Onstad – Achewood
- David Malki – Wondermark
- Jessica Hagy – Indexed