Re: Dan Friedman's examples

I second that emotion... Richard Bird got "The Fun of Programming", after all...

Matt

On 3/4/07, Pascal Costanza <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 4 Mar 2007, at 16:25, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
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> > On Mar 4, 2007, at 8:40 AM, Pascal Costanza wrote:
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> >> Hi,
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> >> I have seen some of the presentations of DanFest, and I am quite
> >> excited about them.
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> >> 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.
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> >> 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?
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> > 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.
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> I think that something like that would be very valuable, and probably
> even a very successful book...
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> Pascal
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