tags: Logo

2003

September

2003 Sep 5

processing

Is the relationship between Processing and Java the exact relationship between Logo and Lisp?

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2006

April

2006 Apr 7

rabbit holes (a tale that's been told over and over)

I finished rereading Memory, Thorn, and Sorrow by Tad Williams, which has been (like many other fantasy novels such as The Sword of Shannara and The Wheel of Time series) compared much to The Lord of the Rings. While there exists much older literature that could considered fantasy (for example, The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser written in the 16th century), I believe that it was Tolkien that allowed booksellers to actually have an entire marketing category devoted to such stuff.

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2015

October

2015 Oct 20

List Manipulation

I am amused (because I am a weirdo) by how common the paradigm of manipulating lists is in computer programming, specifically, the need to separate the first element in a list from the rest of the list.

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2015 Oct 23

Revisiting Logo

I was trawling around the WayBack Machine's archive of Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror because he had changed his permalink style sometime between 2007 and now, and I stumbled upon this old post about Logo (and Processing)¹.

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