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Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2024. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new. also: see the lists from 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010 Great posts | articles | talks read/watched ELITE: The game that couldn’t be […]
On method values, part 1
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Prior to discovering Clojure back in 2007, I was a full-time Java programmer. This was long before method handles, method references, lambda expressions, and invokedynamic, so viewing Java through a functional programming lens was not second-nature to me. Regardless, during my early Clojure explorations I fully expected code like the following to...
The Elusive Computer KAMAS Report Volume 2
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The Internet Archive currently has digital copies of almost every KAMAS Report, except for vol 2. KAMAS was (is?) early outliner software originally written for the Kaypro line of computers running CP/M. I previously wrote about KAMAS in my 8-bit Spirituals post and have looked for vol. 2 ever since to no avail. If anyone […]
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Starting in the late-1960s/early-1970s Elsevier and McDonald teamed up to print a series of computing books under the series “Computer Monographs“. I’ve read a couple and they were both well-written and likely ahead of their time. While looking deeper into the series I learned that 26 volumes in the series were printed, however I cannot […]