This week on Musical Geek Friday - God Wrote in Lisp (also known as The Eternal Flame) song! This song is written and performed by Julia Ecklar. It’s a parody of another song of hers - “God Lives on Terra”. The song is about a question which programming language God could have used...

I love ebay. I used to own this as a kid but it disappeared at some point. We recently found this on ebay and had to buy it for the office. You’re an instruction pointer. Your board is a flowchart of sorts. First person to have the highest value in their register and reach the end wins. Hell y...

As an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley in the late 1960s, I first learned of John Backus and his work on Fortran, BNF, and Algol. Around 1972 or 1973 I attended a talk John gave on “variable-free programming” at Berkeley. I was fascinated by programming languages...