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Monthly Archive July, 2005

Wisdom of the distant past

12 Jul 2005

I recently downloaded Abelson and Sussman’s 1986 video lectures based on their famous textbook, and we’ve been watching them over brown bag lunches at work. Great stuff and good to be reminded. Last week, they covered higher-order functions, which is very straightforward in Lisp. “Why can’t we have that?”, whinged one of the developers watching.

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Krazy Kat and social complexity

10 Jul 2005

I was one of a group of Agile practitioners who attended a recent course on the Cynefin approach to organisational complexity. Of course, I should have known that Krazy Kat said it first in 1918.

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