OddThinking

Reminiscing about a programming language

Examining the insides of a electronic game

To understand the genius of Camille Jordan, we need to do a little experiment together.

There’s somethink about chess computers…

One short, cryptic error message in our application was causing a lot of confusion. I decided it was time to fix the problem.

An anecdote about Church Numerals, Miranda and the way language designers make their opinions known.

A few days ago, I commented on Usman Latif’s analysis of the very first move of Klondike.

I didn’t think Latif had given logical analysis a fair go, so I gave it a try.

How Julian was mentally brutalised by his C lecturer

IT undergraduates have lecturers they like and lecturers they hate. They hate the lecturers who first teach them C.

Julian finds a surprising optimisation for Klondike