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  1. Programming in a Mother Tongue on Non-English Programming Languages? · · Score: 3, Informative

    If I remember correctly, Mitarou Namiki wrote a paper exploring this. The reference seems to be:

    T.Souya, E.Hayakawa, M.Honma, H.Fukushima, M.Namiki, N.Takahashi and M.Nakagawa, "Programming in a Mother Tongue: Philosophy, Implementation, Practice and Effect", The 15th Annual International Computer Software & Application Conference, pp.705-721, 1991.9

    See his 1991 papers listing and his lab's website.

    I talked with him about it ten years ago. I have a copy of the paper or maybe a similar one somewhere, but it's in japanese and I never allocated the hours I need to read it.

  2. Re:Dumbbells, chairs & broomsticks on Exercise for Geeks? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I bought a pair of cheap dumbbells from Walmart and have been very pleased with the results. ExRx is a good source for exercise ideas. They index exercises by muscle group, describe how they are performed, and show how with a short video clip. I exercise wrist, upper arm and deltoids on day one; back and shoulders on day two; with day three as a rest day. I saw pleasing results soon with only light weight (5-10 lbs). I also try to walk for 30 to 60 minutes a few times a week.

    For weight control, I'm trying the Hacker's Diet.

  3. Re:Realism != Good Gameplay on Limited Edition Terminus For Order · · Score: 1

    Somewhere on their site, they claimed the realism was adjustable to `arcade style'. Perhaps they've thought about the learning curve and let people work their way up.

  4. Re:Yabut on HPs Dynamo Optimizes Code · · Score: 1
    A better reference to this Lisp history is John McCarthy's History of Lisp paper.

    Another way to show that LISP was neater than Turing machines was to write a universal LISP function and show that it is briefer and more comprehensible than the description of a universal Turing machine. This was the LISP function eval[e,a], which computes the value of a LISP expression e - the second argument a being a list of assignments of values to variables. (a is needed to make the recursion work).

    ...

    S.R. Russell noticed that eval could serve as an interpreter for LISP, promptly hand coded it, and we now had a programming language with an interpreter.

    It's also interesting to see the similiarities of HP's dynamo with The Dynamo Project at Indiana University. I assume there's some connection.
  5. Re:OCaml can be compiled on 21 Linux Web Browsers? · · Score: 1

    Yes, OCAML also has a native code compiler.
    See Chapter 10 of the documentation.