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GNU Autotools considered harmful   0

Posted on 2006-09-25 18:51. About Diary, Work, Free World, Anguish, Free World.

The bulk of the material on the web concerning GNU autotools, from libtool up through automake and autoconf, concern the brokenness of the system. I hold that this system for producing spaghetti is intrinsically harmful to software development progress.

The autotools, by design, produce incomprehensible, misleadingly indented, highly redundant code which has to be reverse-engineered […]

Crossplatform delivery for Linux/Windows in one binary   0

Posted on 2006-01-04 20:02. About Diary, Idea Store, Work, Free World.

Linux needs PE binary format support

Someone Asked Me How to Build a Scalable Cluster   0

Posted on 2005-12-21 2:49. About Diary, Development Log, Work, Free World.

Commodity clusters are easy if you decouple layers and make each layer scalable.

Unicode blues   0

Posted on 2005-12-11 23:43. About Free World.

unicode support is still not good enough

Zigzag and RDF   0

Posted on 2005-12-11 5:13. About Diary, Idea Store, Mathemagic, Free World.

Ted Nelson is the man.

Hanzibar is now commercial   0

Posted on 2005-12-11 3:33. About Chinese Language, Japanese Language, Free World.

Although I offered to contribute $100 to open-source it

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If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Saunders Mac Lane's Categories for the Working Mathematician.

I provide an array of general ideas useful in a wide variety of fields. Starting from foundations, I illuminate the concepts of category, functor, natural transformation, and duality. I then turn to adjoint functors, which provide a description of universal constructions, an analysis of the representation of functors by sets of morphisms, and a means of manipulating direct and inverse limits.

Which Springer GTM would you be? The Springer GTM Test