Tag: RMS
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Richard Stallman plainly lacks any sense of irony
Richard Stallman (aka “RMS” or the “last of the true hackers” according to Steven Levy’s classic book) is a great, but very difficult, man. His strops and sulks about Linus Torvalds should not blind us to the fact that he does have a serious and valid point when he insists that what most people call…
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Coming up… the lambda calculus
Another thing that The Annotated Turing taught me is what all those lambdas that I have seen over the last 25 years were about, or at least it introduced me to what they were about. So I have just ordered a copy of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: and I can guess that some…
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