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Comment on Programming with Concurrency by Vadim

Vadim — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:22:17 +0000

Re: Knuth’s alleged ignorance of True Meaning of Moore’s Law…

As early as 2001 (ISBN-10: 157586326X), he said (right here, in
Cambridge): “Moore’s Law certainly can’t go on indefinitely.”

Re: “Sundar is my boss at ITA, and is quite awesome”.

That was quite funny.

Comment on Why Did Symbolics Fail? by Jon

Jon — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:32:32 +0000

Whichever way you look at the facts, it makes for a nice reminiscence on one of the most innovative and exciting computing platforms of all time. It’s very interesting that talk of the DEC Alpha gets brought into it too.

Sometimes I think the reason we lose these platforms along with their plus points is that the market isn’t always smart enough to know what’s good for it.

The situation with are in today in I.T. is definitely not the culmination of the best of everything that came before it.

Some things are explained by the throw of chance.

Comment on Come to the European Common Lisp Meeting! by Advogato: Blog for crhodes | Common Lisp WebDev Insider

Advogato: Blog for crhodes | Common Lisp WebDev Insider — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:55:16 +0000

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Comment on Kindle 2 has been announced by Lyndon Pereyra

Lyndon Pereyra — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:27:29 +0000

Very good text. I’ve found your site via Google and I’m really glad about the information you provide in your articles. Btw your sites layout is really broken on the Chrome browser. Would be cool if you could fix that. Anyhow keep up the great work!

Comment on Why Did M.I.T. Switch from Scheme to Python? by july

july — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:36:14 +0000

Is phyton harder to learn than scheme?

Comment on Perst, An Embedded Object-Oriented Database Management System by DBA Admin

DBA Admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:18:15 +0000

We are using Perst for testing purposes and believe me its quite useful.
Perst has advanced capabilities of performing tougher jobs with ease. It’s totally Object-oriented, Compact, Fast, Reliable and Rich in development tools. And besides this the source codes are available for transparent persistence.
Good work detective!

Comment on Object-Oriented Database Management Systems Succeeded by Dan Weinreb

Dan Weinreb — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:24:43 +0000

@Consumer, it’s been so long since I’ve been involved that I don’t know. You’d have to ask them.

Comment on Object-Oriented Database Management Systems Succeeded by Consumer Mailing Lists

Consumer Mailing Lists — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:16:13 +0000

Very well said, I thoroughly enjoyed this article and the knowledge that you have on this subject. Do you think that ObjectStore has been improved to make it easier to sell, have they integrated the proper programs that will make this easier on the user? Thanks for sharing you extensive knowledge on this product.

Comment on Coders At Work, by Peter Seibel by Simon Hawkin

Simon Hawkin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:04:06 +0000

A great book, educational both for an experienced and a beginning computer programmer. I have enjoyed it tremendously, as did many of my friends.

Comment on The International Lisp Conference 2009 Succeeded! by Improved Means For Achieving Deteriorated Ends / On Minimalism

Improved Means For Achieving Deteriorated Ends / On Minimalism — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:09:45 +0000

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