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I find this style of writing quite playfully elegant. Anyone knows where I can read similar stuff (books, blogs, etc.)?
by __debugger__ 10y ago
I find this style of writing quite playfully elegant. Anyone knows where I can read similar stuff (books, blogs, etc.)?
- Nition 10y agoPossibly James Mickens' USENIX articles: http://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens http://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens
- devnonymous 10y agoWhen you say 'this style', what do you mean? The subversive intent or the elegant phrasing? If you meant the intent, search and read the BOFH if you haven't already
- vaibhavsagar 10y agoThis reminded me of Hao Lian's writing, e.g. http://blog.fogcreek.com/fparsec/ http://blog.fogcreek.com/fparsec/. He blogs at http://hao.codes/ http://hao.codes/
- krallja 10y agoH.A.P.'s F# code is still parsing Kiln searches to this day.
- titanomachy 10y agoCharles Stross's Laundry series is great. A talented programmer accidentally rediscovers a CS theorem which allows the summoning of demons and is immediately press-ganged into mandatory employment with Britain's occult secret service. His wife plays the possessed violin from Lovecraft's "The Music of Erich Zahn".
- di4na 10y agoPatrick Rothfuss work well too.