Ken Shirriff's blog

I've been experimenting with QR codes (2-d bar codes) with my mobile phone. While helping my daughter assemble a Lego® spaceship, I ha...

Java is very much in full retreat. -- R. Loui Professor Ronald Loui has an interesting article on the rise of scripting languages ( In Pr...

The total world's population of Haskell programmers fits in a 747. And if that goes down, nobody would even notice. -- Erik Meijer I ...

A recent post quotes Alan Kay's statement that expressing Lisp in itself is the " Maxwell's Equations of Software ": Ye...

Can Arc be used to create a Tetris-like game? In my previous posting on using OpenGL with Arc , I described how the effort to set up OpenGL...

I saw a posting on news.ycombinator entitled " Take the Tetris test (an Arc version, anyone?) ", which suggested writing a simple...

Recently, I've been reading Programming Collective Intelligence , which is a practical guide to machine learning algorithms, showing how...