William Cook's Fusings

I've been busy working on Ensō, but took time out to write something about what we are doing. This post introduces the Schema Schema . N...

I know that this is just a teaser, but it is the introduction of the paper on Ensō that Tijs and I are writing. If you want to know more or ...

I recently gave a lecture in my programming language class concluded by explaining that Java does not support inheritance of interfaces. I...

A great language should let you think useful thoughts you have never been able to think before. This new project I'm working on, whose c...

I recently said that I'm working on creating the "Smalltalk of Modeling". To me, this means creating an elegant system that is...

I'm in Ruby GUI hell. wxruby I'm using ruby1.9 so I need the latest gem. But it is not compiled for 64bit architecture, so I have to...

Last week I started tweeting about a new programming language/model that I'm working on with Tijs van der Storm. If you've talked to...

I just realized that Paul's note is about 10 years old. I'll leave my comments here, but I'm sure a lot has changed since then.....

Does anyone else find it ironic that JAOO would rename itself GOTO ? Doesn't anyone remember GOTO considered harmful?

I was poking around the ACM site and ran into this list. Its too bad the only include "terms" not entire search strings. The follo...

I'm on the PDLI external reviewers committee this year. I've never published a paper at PLDI but I have attended. This is also my fi...

A student sent me a link to my academic genealogy page . Mine goes like this: Peter Wegner, Maurice Wilkes, John Ratcliffe, Edward Appleton,...

Some rants about conference names: PLDI: the only PL conference with "Design" in the title is also the least likely to accept pape...

I am really annoyed at Matlab. It keeps a record of all your old commands. At least, that's what it seems to do. Gives you a nice good f...

I finally found out how to sync all (ten) of my secondary Google calendars into iPhone and my Mac: iPhone: Just go to http://google.com/cale...

I just took at look at The future of programming by Tony Wasserman and Steven Gutz. I've never met him but his article made some fairly...

I just go back from a trip to India/Madrid/Delft. I was at the First Mysore Park Workshop on Building and Programming The Cloud . Then I wen...

Here are some other comments on my essay: A detailed discussion by Derrick Coetzee. A short comment at Forty Six and Two It is recommended ...

The ECOOP banquet talk was delivered during dessert on the lawn of a nice Italian villa on the hill overlooking Genova. When I started the t...

My recent essay seems to be causing a big stir. I am pleased because I love it when my work has impact. The only funny thing about it is tha...