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Where is that "Lightweight Languages mailing list"? Google only gives me obsolete stuff.
It was ll1-discuss. It was a good list but I think it's gone now.
Archives here: https://lists.csail.mit.edu/pipermail/ll-discuss/
And older archives here: http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/t...
Thanks for writing :)
I have to say, A Woman's Story[1] is a favorite of mine. It's incredible to hear about a woman overcoming such odds in an industry that still, 60 years later, has a gender gap. To discover that it's about your mother is just delightful.
Where is that "Lightweight Languages mailing list"? Google only gives me obsolete stuff.
http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/t...
The closest proxies are Lambda the Ultimate and videos/lists of papers from conferences like the JVM languages summit, strange loop, ICFP, CUFP, and
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/functional-program...
Happy Birthday! Thanks for writing :) I have to say, A Woman's Story[1] is a favorite of mine. It's incredible to hear about a woman overcoming such odds in an industry that still, 60 years later, has a gender gap. To discover that it's about your mother is just delightful. [1] http://raganwald.posterous.com/a-womans-story
She was hired on contract to go and help set it up, and as a single mother she took my sister and I and we moved to Nigeria from 1969-1971 or so. Needless to say, there were many challenges being a single professional woman living in a corrupt patriarchal post-colonial african country :-)
Although the computers have changed (I remember seeing actual core memory at the University), the career probably sounds familiar to many readers here. Big install, travel to a customer’s site, &c.
Enjoy that delicious, delicious cake.
Happy Birthday. At what point do you think you went from "posting essays online" to being a "blogger"?
When I started, news aggregators hadn’t reached a tipping point. There was Slashdot and some other stuff, but the vast majority of people subscribed to RSS feeds. I posted a few essays and shared the links, but I didn’t have a “readership” until I had an RSS feed and people could subscribe. So I consider myself to have started blogging when there was an RSS feed. (A few years back I abandoned that, as I felt that the…
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When I started, news aggregators hadn’t reached a tipping point. There was Slashdot and some other stuff, but the vast majority of people subscribed to RSS feeds. I posted a few essays and shared the links, but I didn’t have a “readership” until I had an RSS feed and people could subscribe. So I consider myself to have started blogging when there was an RSS feed. (A few years back I abandoned that, as I felt that the…
Are you still getting the majority of your traffic from RSS readers?
I get most of my traffic from Twitter and aggregators