Seven old Slashdot stories: just news, no opinion/ask slashdot stories:

• Public Library of Science Launches (Oct 2003)
• Two New PLoS Journals Launched (Jan 2005; PLoS is the Public Library of Science)
• Wellcome Trust to Require Open-Access Publishing (Mar 2005)
• Open-Access Computational Biology Journal Launches
• Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement (Feb 2008)
• New Bill Would Repeal NIH Open Access Policy (Feb 2009)
• MIT To Make All Faculty Publications Open Access (Mar 2009)

Node #3666: Liskov's list of papers.

Barbara Liskov, Turing award laureate, presented a list of papers that led up to her work. An excellent introduction to the theory of object-oriented programming language design.

From my advogato diary:

1. I'll start this week with the very fresh.
   Week 1: Node #587: The fate of reduce() in Python 3000 , which has become a sort of forum for complaining about/defending Python's piss poor support of core FP style. Regular readers of this diary will probably have become aware that my attitude to the language moves around the spectrum from "distaste" through "irritation" and "outrage" to "cold hatred" ;
2. This week, I nominate Node #548: Journals and papers
3. Node #633: Dominus talk about HO Perl, with thanks to fxn;
4. Node #645: Chemistry, Graph Tranformation and Programming Languages, about using graph transformations to represent the possible ways molecules can react;
5. Node #663: Why do they program in C++?, about the mismatch between what PL theorists recommend and the enduring appeal of C++;
6. Node #673: The Fortress Language Specification: another Guy Steele special, which in Sun's language for highly parallel programming, which reminds me a bit of Connection Machine LISP.

and there should be more next week...

Another old slashdot post, now you can reply...

An old comment of mine generated 10 responses, some of them interesting.

I'm coorganising the Strucutures and Deductions workshop. 2nd Call for papers is out, submission deadline is 15th April.

Check out or edit the SD05 page at the consequently.org wiki, or reply to this journal entry, or do what ever you like...

Since the 2005 bloggies are soon to appear, I thought I'd post a link to my summary of the best weblogs that bear on what I consider the heart of computer science.

I have to add Luca Aceto's process algebra diary to this list.

On a completely different topic, I find Top Shelf's last journal entry to be utterly shocking.