Monthly Archives: January 2022

Diversity is in the news again, thanks to Biden announcing that he will appoint a Black woman to the US Supreme Court. Conservatives are already lining up to denounce the idea, even before they know who in particular will be … Continue reading →

Readers of this blog are familiar with notions of computability – basically, the question is, what can machines do without human assistance? And you are familiar with machines. Electronic ones of course, but I always like to think of machines … Continue reading →

When Lucid first came out decades ago it was a very primitive language. It had only program variables and built-in operators and functions, like next or fby. Users could not define their own functions (or “subroutines” as they were often … Continue reading →

It was developed in a secret lab and released, after which it spread rapidly. COVID? (maybe …). But I’m talking about the new PyFL interpreter. It’s finally available for the general public at pyflang.com To make things simple, in the form … Continue reading →