Well at least my picture is:
Perhaps the Sudbury, Ontario municipal sculptor will use that photo as a reference when they erect a statue honoring Tom Davies…
I’ve recently found myself not blogging because I didn’t wish to inflict the posts on Planet Atlassian. So now anything non-technical which I don’t think is of interest to subscribers to this blog (Hi to both of you!) appears here.
Along with some colleagues I entered the ICFP programming contest this year.
You can read some more about our experience at Matt’s blog.
I thought the problem — guiding a Mars rover to a goal amongst obstacles — was very well chosen. It was possible to navigate the example maps with very simple software, so everyone could [...]
I’m much happier with the second version:
out3 a = let renderGroup g = let char = head g; [...]
My colleague Matt Ryall wrote about this simple algorithm for marking up a series of letters — which is complex enough to be interesting.
I wrote a version in CAL:
arr = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'e', 'e', 'e', 'e', 'f', 'e', 'f', 'e', 'f', 'a', [...]