Re: Dan Friedman's examples

On Mar 4, 2007, at 8:40 AM, Pascal Costanza wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have seen some of the presentations of DanFest, and I am quite  
> excited about them.
>
> One thing that caught my attention is Guy Steele's remark about Dan  
> Friedman handing out small example programs that illustrate some  
> ideas or insights. I too had the pleasure of being handed some of  
> those, and it is indeed quite amazing what little code snippets can  
> communicate.
>
> I am wondering whether there is a collection of such example  
> programs somewhere. Does anyone know of a book, a website, a Wiki,  
> or something similar?

As a graduate student, I collected Dan's puzzles for the 3+ years I  
was at Indiana. I had considered writing a tech rpt on them. But when  
I got to Rice I realized that many (if not most) were highly  
situation-dependent and -- in some sense -- demanded Dan's story- 
telling to go with them. (Evaluate-once starts with "Imagine all  
these stars on a night sky and you're traveling from star to  
star ...".) I don't think I have my note books anymore, but I can look.

-- Matthias