Wadler's Blog

One output of WOWCS (the Workshop on Organizing Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia for Computer Systems) is a wiki to collect information...

Here is your chance to be a patron of the arts. Robin Sloan, the author of Mr. Penumbra (see earlier blog entry), is writing a book. Spons...

William Gibson stopped setting his novels in the future, saying that the present had caught up with science fiction. Another illustration i...

Olivier Danvy delivered a lovely memorial to Peter Landin at this year's ICFP, but it was light on some of Landin's politics. Richa...

A survey by François Pottier , which links a number of concepts and clarifies a cluttered landscape. Spotted via LtU .

Perhaps not too surprising, as Hal Abelson (of SICFP fame) is involved. Spotted by Mitch Wand. Thanks, Mitch!

I recently came across two excellent resources on climate change, and also list a third which I encountered a couple of years back. Sustaina...

A joint study by The Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the British Computer Society. The auth...

Objects as Modules in Newspeak, by Gilad Bracha et al. We describe support for modularity in Newspeak, a new programming language descended ...

Mirrors: design principles for meta-level facilities of object-oriented programming languages, by Gilad Bracha and David Ungar. We identify ...