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…

The New Boom

Apparently, it’s going crazy again in the Silicon Valley. This time, many share the opinion that it is not a bubble but a real boom. The reasons for that are numerous — healthier economy, broad technology adoption, cheap internet bandwidth, broader open-source usage and cheap hardware prices. This…

The Last Days in Sydney

The stay in Sydney comes to an end. My work is finishing this Tuesday with the end of the month. After that, take off on Wednesday for Hervey Bay, about 1400 km North of Sydney. From there, discovery of the coast starting at Bundaberg. There, we will take a ferry to Lady Musgrave…