Wadler's Blog

My colleague, Maria Wolters , writes: I'd also like to mention the Science is Vital campaign, which is orchestrated by biomedical resea...

A colleague recently referred to EPSRC's approach of appointing program managers untrained in the areas they manage as like the Portsmou...

"These then are twelve virtues of rationality: Curiosity, relinquishment, lightness, evenness, argument, empiricism, simplicity, humili...

For those of you in or near Edinburgh: 7pm Monday 13 September 2010, Malone's Irish Bar, 14 Forrest Road. How to find us: "Look ou...

A recent paper by Escardo and Oliva, to appear in MSFP 2010, relates diverse aspects of computing, in the form of a literate Haskell progra...

From an article in the New York Times by Guy Deutscher , describing linguistics view of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, seventy years on. Taken...

L'Illusionniste, Sylvain Chomet's second film and Jacques Tati's last, is a remarkable film; The Guardian gave if five stars . ...

Network effects are clearly significant in the spread of programming lagnuages. I've often thought it would be good to team up with an ...

A site that tracks popularity of Programming Languages. Many of my favorite languages appear on the list. Interesting to see that (for thi...

Nifty visualisation with sound of several sorting algorithms. It covers insert, bubble, selection, merge, and gnome sort; a related video t...