Category Archives: Live Programming

Stone Soup Programming

Posted on 2012 September 12 by

Stone soup programming is meant to evoke an image of throwing software components into a pot – in no particular order, and paying little attention to the ingredients – and the result being a nice application. The glue code between … Continue reading →

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Stateless Stable Arts for Game Development

Posted on 2012 September 7 by

In the months since grasping the concept of stateless stable models, I regularly find scenarios where I think, “A stateless stable model would be useful here.” Unfortunately, I’ve not gotten around to implementing these models. (I still haven’t. I might … Continue reading →

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Natural Programming Language

Posted on 2012 August 1 by

A recent essay about why natural language isn’t computer code has been making a few rounds through the PL community. It seems to celebrate the precision required in computer languages, the differences between coders and writers. The article concludes: Fundamentally, … Continue reading →

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Windowed Memoization?

Posted on 2012 April 25 by

I assume you already know what memoization is and why we might want to use it. In the context of reactive computations, memoization can improve performance a great deal, avoiding recalculation of data that has not changed. Most reactive paradigms, … Continue reading →

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Stability and RDP

Posted on 2011 September 4 by

Stability is a valuable property (or set of properties) for any system. For a quick background, I recommend you peruse the Wikipedia articles: metastability, superstabilization, dynamic algorithm, self-stabilization. Stability in different dimensions is discussed with a variety of different names: … Continue reading →

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Data Model Independence

Posted on 2011 June 15 by

One of the most pervasive and stubborn challenges for open systems development is composing, fusing, adapting, integrating subsystems that use heterogeneous data models for similar tasks. By data model I mean how we group, share, describe, and update data in … Continue reading →

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