From the open newslist, I’ve been asked to reflect on the 50th anniversary of BASIC. This came at the same time I read this post on the Light Table blog. I think Jamie Brandon has a point about the distinction between an evaluate-or-die and an edit-and-continue model of computing. He’s also right about the deployment…
Read More Basicer BasicSo the economists are now saying that even if you made testable predictions and they came true it doesn’t mean you’re right because of, you know, quantum and catallaxy and hey What the Bleep?! Do We Know. There’s an infinity of possible universes in which I might be right, and averaging over the Gaussian copula,…
Read More In a parallel universe, I scored!You want a World Cup record. Here’s a World Cup record. “I live in a land of class hypocrisy/we’re gonna win the National Lottery/ee-i-addio-I don’t think so.” In a digitised west Lancashire accent. This reminds me that the 1990s could be quite a lot of fun, and in some ways very radical. A lot of…
Read More Not Thursday, so a music post