- Life Is Too Short For Bad Code: The Web Interface Is Morphing Into Emacs – “It’s just like XML over Lisp. The reaction to Lisp is, “OMG! Parentheses! Run!” On the other hand, XML (with twice the number of parenthesis</>) is cool/hip and folks have flocked to it.”
- Room 101: Foreign functions, VM primitives and Mirrors – I used to think primitives were redundant and just FFI was needed, but Gilad Bracha makes an excellent case for keeping them separated.
- Stephen Fry ? Happy birthday to GNU ? The GNU Operating System –