The latest in an excellent sequence of irreverent, oddball humour, angry alien productions gives you Jaws in 30s, re-enacted by bunnies! (Make sure you click on the bunny at the end of the credits...)
Friday, August 27, 2004
Thursday, August 12, 2004
What is considered harmful, according to the web?
Typing 'considered harmful' into Google brings up an interesting selection of obviously geek articles :-) Now I'm no computer scientist (actually a mathematician turned meteorologist who happens to teach computing) but maybe I should be -- the top article in that search (as of today at 4.30pm BST) is a link to an article by the famous mathematician/computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra (I recognised the surname; now I know a little more!) which appeals to me. It presents a clear case for ditching the "GO TO" statement in computer programs. I'd always been told it was a bad idea in FORTRAN (sorry, meteorology has a long history with that so-called dead language!) and now I know why ... so, if you're learning to program and curse procedures, functions and methods, read the article and try to understand what it's on about!