Nice Seal Generator

I have stumbled upon a nice site tonight. It is a seal generator enabling to chose among a fair amount of models and to…

Functional Programming Koans

Already some time that I haven’t posted something on the blog. That’s the famous trade-off between living and speaking about it. I have choosen the former in the previous weeks. Additionnaly I have posted a lot of new pictures on the gallery.

Computer Language Shootout Ranking

The idea of the Computer Language Shootout is to propose a benchmark of a large number of programming languages. This is achieved through the definition of particular problems — allocate many binary trees, compute a Mandelbrot fractal, implement a specific version of…

LINKS language

By the way, I attended yesterday at UTS Sydney, a talk by Philip Wadler about his new LINKS language. Sounds exciting. Philip Wadler, Professor of theoritical computer-science at Edinburgh university has been involved in numerous projects around the functional programming paradigm (he has been in the…

Article très intéressant, du quotidien genevois Le Temps, se détachant de la superficialité de l’actualité en privilégiant une lecture plus en profondeur. Cet article retrace les événements importants dans la vie de Mahomet, brosse un portrait de l’Islam et illustrant le rejet de l’idôlatrie dans la religion musulmane. Une bonne manière de laisser…