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You'll start off with command-line arguments and parsing, and progress to writing a fully-functional Scheme interpreter that implements a good-sized subset of R5RS Scheme. Along the way, you'll learn Haskell's I/O, mutable state, dynamic typing, error han

by S. Dasgupta, C.H. Papadimitriou, and U.V. Vazirani

hilarious.. +1 for nod factor ;)

live coding is the act of writing software while it is executing, often as part of a performance.

Postscript is very cool. wish I had discovered it when I was trying to draw pictures using BASIC or C-Graphics :)

O'Reilly has published a number of Open Books--books with various forms of "open" copyright--over the years.

PDF chapters

rant on php, mysql vs the rest.. etc

a very good introduction to lisp for newbies...yay!

oreilly etc..

Who would have thought that the programming languages of the 21st century will be built upon foundations of logic theory from the 19th and 20th?

Programmers have very particular font needs. A font for programming must be monospaced, extremely readable, and must sharply distinguish

Here is a list of functional programs applied to real-world tasks. The main criterion for being real-world is that the program was written primarily to perform some task, not primarily to experiment with functional programming.

read the article. dont flame me ;)

online book on lisp programming.

when we embrace the math, sometimes the loss in flexibility is more than compensated for by the increase in functionality.

Provides mathematical insights to help programmers make their work better.

erm! what else?

if you have read Paul Graham's "Hacker sna Painters", you will want to read this too :)