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Toy programming tasks are sweet

Here is a good article about the role and value of “toy” programming tasks.

LeftParen

LeftParen is a framework for quickly creating web apps. It runs on PLT Scheme v3.99.0.23 or greater.

Emacs Faleshoods

Here is an article that documents ten falsehoods about Emacs.

Motivational John McCarthy Posters

For programmers, how motivational is a poster with John McCarthy on it?
(Mirrored here U.S. and here A4.)

Tenerife Skunkworks

Tenerife Skunkworks is a great programming blog run by Joel.

Although pink-bliss.el color theme for Emacs is sure to elicit repressed memories of “Hello Kitty”, the normal confusion about why it exists doesn’t come along with it as you are simply all too lost in the ocean of pink (and pink-compatible) colors.

Color Theme for Emacs

Color Theme is an Emacs-Lisp package that lets you create and use different color themes within Emacs.
This is probably critical for anyone new to Emacs.

CUFP 2007 Videos in the ACM Digital Library

The videos recorded at CUFP 2007 have been posted in the
ACM Digital Library. You can find them either by searching for “CUFP”
at the top level DL page or by using this link.

Hopefully they are soon to be released to Google Video!
(via CUFP)

2008 Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming

The goal of the 2008 Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming is to:

report experience with the programming languages known as Scheme, to discuss ideas for the future of Scheme, and to present research related to Scheme and functional programming.

It is co-located with ICFP 08 in Victoria, British Columbia.

Scheme is mysophobic

Here is an interesting post about hygiene and its sociological impact on the two Lisp groups of Schemers and Common Lispers.
While the post itself is a troll, the author:

Uses a very accessible analogy.
Quite clearly communicates a number of differences between Scheme and Common Lisp when it comes not only to hygiene but also language design.

The interesting thing about this post is that the only difference between this post being a troll and an educational article is how the content was delivered. If you remove the cruddy name-calling, whining, and complaining; it would have been a really good post on the difference between the languages. That is wild!
(reference mysophobic)

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