(The late) Alan Turing's birthday was yesterday, and I meant to write this post yesterday, but I didn't, so here it is now. Anyone with an interest in computing (note: not computers) already knows everything there is to know about Turing, but for everyone else, here's a little background. Turing was a mathematician (among other things). At the time (let's say late 1920s through 1954), there weren't computer scientists, because there weren't computers, not as we know them. There was a lot of math, though, and one way to help formulate a proof, help work through an algorithm or a complex mathematical function is by having some sort of device to help you.
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Happy Belated Birthday, Alan Turing
date: 2010-06-24 17:04:29
On smartenter and fish
I've been busy with a number of (unfortunately more important) things, and haven't really put much effort into z in the past few days. I did put a bit more thought into smartenter, however, and have come to the conclusion that I must put it on hold for now. As much as I would like to polish it up, one thing stands in my way that would make z a better investment in my time - command history. If I code z correctly, it should be able to behave much like smartenter does now, but I probably still won't make much use of it.
date: 2010-06-20 02:57:33
Job Control, Piece Two
If you haven't already, it's probably a good idea to read my previous post. The plan, of course, was to work on z, my shell script to assist me with multitasking and Unix job control. I am working on z, but while I was spending a lot of time thinking about z, I was spending just as much time implementing something additional. Two additional things, to be exact.
date: 2010-06-20 02:00:52