"There is a myth that Lisp (and Prolog) are "special-purpose" languages, while languages such as Pascal and C are "general purpose". Actually, just the reverse is true. Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer. The majority of their syntax is devoted to arithmetic and Boolean expressions, and while they provide some facilities for forming data structures, they have poor mechanisms for procedural abstraction or control abstraction. In addition, they are designed for the state-oriented style of programming: computing a result by changing the value of variable through assignment statements."
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from Bookmarklet
jensized: The first track on YLT's "Popular Songs" is one of those great opening songs. Like Cherub Rock or Planet Telex. - http://twitter.com/jensize...
Thankfully it is. Just got back from Wal-Mart with a new tire, a hair cut, and a salad.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from iPhone
That's pretty neat. I've never seen one that looks like that. And you just reminded me that I can use my air compressor to inflate my tires. I always forget that because it's so small.
- Anika
Image stabilizers, timers, post-processing "flash", cropping, magic pre-calibrated color schemes, goofy filters to add water effects and vignette boxing.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
ewH: "Hi what do you do for a living?","I'm a solution architect","A what?","A computer programmer","Great, can you fix my printer?" << GRRR - http://twitter.com/ewH...
"Hard not to notice that Brizzly is using the same "we just hired Ben Darnell!" headshot that the Friendfeed blog used. Odd and clearly deliberate choice, Brizzly."
- Daniel J. Pritchett