Re: Dan Friedman's examples

On 4 Mar 2007, at 16:25, Matthias Felleisen wrote:

>
> 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.

I think that something like that would be very valuable, and probably  
even a very successful book...


Pascal

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