interview with alex stepanov. thanks chris.

While in the hospital, in the state of delirium, I suddenly realized that the ability to add numbers in parallel depends on the fact that addition is associative. (So, putting it simply, STL is the result of a bacterial infection.)

vale, after phobia and schizophrenia comes the dilirium: programming as a kind of disease: either you need to be sick or you get sick.

dopp's version on stepanov.

computing. how it works, vision and methodology.(pointer from chris)

ya dynabook ya chris

where have i read this line before that alan kay tells the story of martin luther as being "one of the earliest great user interface designers": while sitting in jail, he thought about the best way to bring the bible to the "end-users". no sé but it is in there again.