Steve Freeman

Tuesday

Brian Marick is collecting stories from the history of the discipline. He asked Guy Steele to talk about the writing of the Lambda papers. Guy talked about how he and Sussman just kinda did a few things, noticed a couple of simplifications and came up with Scheme. He reminded me of Robert Nagel, the […]

my current team has just become too large for one person reasonably to buy snacks for. Is this an important organisational metric?

talking to Rachel Davies, she reminded me how different the experience of working on a very high quality code base is from what we usually have to deal with. Stuff just doesn’t get in […]

First Mike Roberts raves about gmail and now this, an XHTML-based presentation kit using CSS and JavaScript (via Kyle Rankin).

Maybe I don’t need desktop applications after all….