RT @swannodette: new site celebrating Professor John McCarthy's life work

"emphasizes cleanliness, flexibility, and extensibility [...] sports a more conventional-looking syntax than classic Lisp"

"Watch The History Of Computers"

"dedicated to collecting for posterity the stories of the great thinkers, creators, and achievers of our time"

"it is easier to implement a task-specific language optimized for that task than it is to implement a general-purpose language optimized for all possible uses"

"pundits vs. time"

"The Internet has never been boring."

Clips from the "Mother Of All Demos".

Not exactly a even-handed academic treatment of the current recession, but interesting.

On type systems. Some history, some practice.

On the "other" historical type-safe language.

"Back in the days when systems programmers still disdained "high level languages" there were stories in the compiler community, passed mouth to ear about LIL, a high level assembler, whose creator, had a friendly competition with the creators of C, as to

On speakeasies in San Francisco. How they were, where their modern equivalents are.

"Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers"