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The greatest software ever

Charles Babcock published his take on the greatest software ever written. As he says, most people have an opinion, but sitting down and doing an evaluation isn't so easy. Says he "Greatness is easier to assess given a long historical perspective. The closer you get to the present, however, the...

Tags: Lisp

Blog posts 2006-08-15

Can't buy me Lisp (not to mention love)

Can't buy me Lisp not to mention loveWhy not just download the trial version?I admit, not posting prices is annoying, but I think you over-reacted.Practical?Until open source commercial power was everything. There were always good languages around like LISP, Eiffel and so on. However we ended up with...

Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, Lisp, LISP, Ruby, Allegro CL

Discussion threads 2006-02-09

Can't buy me Lisp (not to mention love)

With the recent talk about Lisp, I got to thinking maybe I ought to look into how Lisp might work for some of the projects I'm involved in at BYU. I use Scheme a lot, but I thought Lisp might have more library support for some things I...

Tags: Allegro CL, Lisp

Blog posts 2006-02-09

Time to learn LISP

Time to learn LISPLong and Interesting Thread on Dynamic Languages vs Javahttp://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=37121recent blog postsYou may also be interested in these posts from the past few weeks:The Perils of JavaSchoolshttp://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.htmlBy Joel SpolskyThursday, December 29, 2005Lisp is sinhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sriram/archive/2006/01/15/lisp_is_sin.aspxBy Sriram KrishnanSunday, January 15, 2006They got me interested enough to check out the MIT...

Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, PHP, LISP, Lisp

Discussion threads 2006-02-06

Time to learn LISP

Peter Coffee has an interesting article about "exotic" programming languages and techniques that are being used in mainstream applications. Peter mentions LISP, Prolog, genetic programming, and neural nets as examples. I've done my share of programming in a dialect of LISP called Scheme and think there are compelling...

Tags: technique, LISP

Blog posts 2006-02-06

Additional Resources

Windows 7 will shine in medicine

not convinced by touchI have a touch phone & a tablet.Frankly, never use the tablet, use keyboarded machines instead, and hanker for a phone with buttons again and not a slide phone.If you want to try to look cool, I can understand having one, but really, they are pretty awkward...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Startrek, Microsoft Windows 7, tablet, wireless

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

The 10 biggest moments in IT history

Missing: Tim Berners-Lee?The Mouse, and the GUI ...... without the invention of the mouse or the GUI/WYSIWYG there would not be as many users as there are today, and I would hazard a guess that it would be restricted to business applications like accounting, and Data Analysis.LudoRE: The 10...

Tags: Mice, Strategy, Operating systems, GUI, PARC User Interface, mouse, Microsoft Corp., IT History, Xerox PARC, operating system, IBM Corp., information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Ufasoft Common Lisp 4.23 (Windows)

Common Lisp development system. Includes console and IDE Lisp interpreter and compiler. Possibility of creating EXE-files. Supports CLOS. It is a small implementation of standard Lisp, just 1MB of binary code.

Tags: Ufasoft, Development Tools, Microsoft Windows, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-08-11

ImageMagick 6.5.3-2 (Mac)

ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a large variety of formats. Images can be cropped, colors can be changed, various effects can be applied, images can be rotated and combined, and text, lines, polygons, ellipses and...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Image, Solutionwright Software, ImageMagick, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-06-02

Ready Lisp 20090130 (Mac)

Ready Lisp is a binding together of several popular Common Lisp packages especially for Mac OS X, including: Aquamacs, SBCL and SLIME. Once downloaded, you�¢â?¬â?¢ll have a single application bundle which you can double-click �¢â?¬â?? and find yourself in a fully configured Common Lisp REPL. It�¢â?¬â?¢s ideal for OS X...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, New Artisans LLC, Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-01-30

Toolbox LT 2009 (Windows)

In today's competitive environment, the spotlight is on productivity and presentation. Companies need design software that ensures them that vital competitive edge. Toolbox LT is the answer, providing the most cost effective solution for extending your design and drafting capabilities with AutoCAD LT. Now you can design in 3D with...

Tags: AutoCAD, Microsoft Windows, GlobalCAD, Toolbox LT, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Networking, Management

Software downloads 2009-01-05

SDL 1.2.13 (Windows)

Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power."SDL...

Tags: Multimedia, SDL, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS, Linux, UNIX, Programming Languages, Scripting Languages, C#, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2008-12-03

Associative arrays and elections data

Associative arrays and elections dataThis is a very useful data structureand what modern language doesnt provide an implementation of it?Neat as your solution it, I have say though I think you're a little hard on SQL. As this data is probably in a RDMBS anyway, if you can write a...

Tags: Programming languages, Scripting languages, Development tools, Databases, Perl, J Smith, John Smith, Associative Arrays

Discussion threads 2008-10-25

Koders.com: Ruby as programmers choice?

Koders.com: Ruby as programmers choice?Kids, Have Your Secret Scheme Decoder Ring ReadyMy sense was that Ruby was the thing two years ago but the shine isn't quite what it was. I looked into the language and have copies of the canonical books, and I have the point of view, that...

Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, C/C++, Ruby, programmers choice, Koders.com

Discussion threads 2008-10-16

KozMos VLXLS 3.5.61231 (Windows)

VLXLS is a fully open source project to demonstrate and execute the procedure of data IO (Input/Output) between Excel and AutoCAD. ActiveX uses variant but Visual LISP use normal list, VLXLS will translate between the two variable types very well. By doing so, the speed of reading data from Excel...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, KozMos, VLXLS, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2008-09-29

KozMos VLDCL System 4.0.80831 (Windows)

VLDCL System is a Visual LISP programming API designed to simplify the coding and maintaining of DCL based applications. By using the predefined VLDCL frame, coding a DCL driven application will be much more faster and will be very easily to maintain and upgrade. A DCL based application may contain...

Tags: Application, Programmer, KozMos, VLDCL System, Development Tools, Microsoft Windows, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-09-29

Chrome is 42x faster than IE7, 9x faster than FF3

Chrome is 42x faster than IE7, 9x faster than FF3Pretty amazing!! It seems like we DO need competition to foster innovation.NT.Chrome and key logging!http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/chrome_privacy_is_full_of_dents.htmlRE: Chrome is 42x faster than IE7, 9x faster than FF3Well please, by all means, do the opposite give us an example of ANY javascript test that...

Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, FF3, 9x, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Considering a Windows Innovation Demo

Considering a Windows Innovation DemoA narrow mind never innovates....Well Mr. Murphy, if you weren't so narrow minded and stuck in the 70's you might actually understand why Microsoft, and others, are making billions and you are stuck blogging on ZDNET.What's next, a blog on how Charles Babbage ripped off the...

Tags: Linux, Blogging, C/C++, Programming languages, .NET, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-31

The tattered history of OOP

This is a guest blog by frequent contributor Mark Miller - a followup on our earlier discussions of the effectiveness and value of the object oriented programming idea. OOP has been a mixed bag, but I say this only because...

Tags: Message, Software, Object-oriented Programming, Smalltalk, Idea, Data, Object-oriented, Unix, Object, Alan Kay, Way Object-orientation, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Writing is important...LOL

Writing is important...LOLBad punctuation isn't always accidental?> they incorporate, often accidentally, some informal writing styles from digital communication (e.g.,...bad punctuation)This can only mean that bad punctuation in "digital communication" (which I assume doesn't mean finger painting)is intentional.RE: Writing is important...LOLWhen my 18 year old send email, it's all in txt...

Tags: Lol, punctuation

Discussion threads 2008-04-25