Curmudgeon

Articles from the ACM Queue column "Curmudgeon", written by Stan Kelly-Bootle. Stan Kelly-Bootle born in Liverpool, England, read pure mathematics at Cambridge in the 1950s before tackling the impurities of computer science on the pioneering EDSAC I. His many books include The Devil's DP Dictionary (McGraw-Hill, 1981), Understanding Unix (Sybex, 1994), and the recent e-book Computer Language—The Stan Kelly-Bootle Reader. Software Development Magazine has named him as the first recipient of the new annual Stan Kelly-Bootle Eclectech Award for his "lifetime achievements in technology and letters." Neither Nobel nor Turing achieved such prized eponymous recognition. Under his nom-de-folk, Stan Kelly, he has enjoyed a parallel career as a singer and songwriter.

This collections includes 29 articles published between 2004 and 2011.

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2011 (1)

2011
Two Books Alike in Dignity
ACM queue (FREE) 2011 (2); by Stan Kelly-Bootle

2010 (1)

2010
Facing an Uncertain Past
ACM queue (FREE) 2010 (9); by Stan Kelly-Bootle

2009 (4)

2009
Some Rules and Restrictions May Apply
ACM queue (FREE) 2009 (11); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2009
Words Fail Them
ACM queue (FREE) 2009 (6); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2009
One Peut-Être, Two Peut-Être, Three Peut-Être, More
ACM queue (FREE) 2009 (4); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2009
The Flaws of Nature
ACM queue (FREE) 2009 (1); by Stan Kelly-Bootle

2008 (5)

2008
Affine Romance
ACM queue (FREE) 2008 (5); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2008
The Fabrication of Reality
ACM queue (FREE) 2008 (4); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2008
There's a Lot of It About
ACM queue (FREE) 2008 (3); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2008
Solomon's Sword Beats Occam's Razor
ACM queue (FREE) 2008 (2); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2008
All Things Being Equal?
ACM queue (FREE) 2008 (1); by Stan Kelly-Bootle

2007 (6)

2007
Use It or Lose It
ACM queue (FREE) 2007 (7); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2007
The Code Delusion
ACM queue (FREE) 2007 (6); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2007
Some Swans are Black
ACM queue (FREE) 2007 (5); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2007
Alloneword
ACM queue (FREE) 2007 (4); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2007
Ode or code?: programmers be used!
ACM queue (FREE) 2007 (3); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2007
As big as a barn?
ACM queue (FREE) 2007 (2); by Stan Kelly-Bootle

2006 (5)

2006
Will the real bots stand up?
ACM queue (FREE) 2006 (10); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2006
You can look it up: or maybe not
ACM queue (FREE) 2006 (8); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2006
Like a podcast in the sea: mean ol' LoTech blues
ACM queue (FREE) 2006 (6); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2006
The calculus formally known as pi
ACM queue (FREE) 2006 (4); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2006
But, having said that, ..
ACM queue (FREE) 2006 (2); by Stan Kelly-Bootle

2005 (2)

2005
Anything Su Doku, I can do better
ACM queue (FREE) 2005 (10); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2005
File under "unknowable!"
ACM queue (FREE) 2005 (3); by Stan Kelly-Bootle

2004 (5)

2004
Linguae Francae
ACM queue (FREE) 2004 (9); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2004
Curmudgeon: Vote Early, Vote Often
ACM queue (FREE) 2004 (6); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2004
Curmudgeon: Without a NULL That String Would Never End
ACM queue (FREE) 2004 (5); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2004
Curmudgeon: From This Moment On
ACM queue (FREE) 2004 (4); by Stan Kelly-Bootle
2004
Curmudgeon: Damnéd Digits
ACM queue (FREE) 2004 (1); by Stan Kelly-Bootle