• Please sign the Petition to stop software patents in Europe

    Software patents make serious danger to all computer users, software developers and generally anybody who has something to do with computers and computing devices. I’m not going to elaborate on that topic here, you can find information about it e.g. on the web pages of Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure. The important thing is […]

  • Bias

    There are people, creatures, objects, ideas, etc. we like and there are people, creatures, objects, ideas, etc. we don’t like so much. There is basically nothing wrong with it. Those luckier of us can choose whether they prefer rice or potatoes for dinner today and that’s fine. The problem appears when we make and present […]

  • Two anniversaries

    There are two nice anniversaries in the end of this year. The first one was 50 years of Lisp and the second one is going to be 15 years of Linux on my desktop computers. Lisp was the second (after FORTRAN) real higher level programming language. During the years Lisp has brought many important pioneering […]