Monthly Archives: September 2006

R6RS

Posted on 15 September 2006 by Brian Hayes

Scheme, the dialect of Lisp invented by Guy Lewis Steele, Jr., and Gerald Jay Sussmann, is my first love among programming languages, though I haven’t always been faithful. There’s a new draft standard for Scheme now circulating at http://www.r6rs.org/. The … Continue reading →

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Softer infrastructure

Posted on 14 September 2006 by Brian Hayes

For those who’ve been waiting patiently… My book Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape is just out in paperback. Except for the cover and the price, it’s identical to the hard-cover edition (errors and all!). Statistics: characters: 1,302,389 … Continue reading →

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Only connect!

Posted on 14 September 2006 by Brian Hayes

Euclid famously said, “There is no royal road to geometry.” Among the non-royal roads, the computational pathway is notably muddy, rutty and potholed. Over the weekend I needed to write a program for a simple geometric task—finding the intersection of … Continue reading →

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