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OpenType Ligatures

I love LaTeX, the markup language for typesetting documents, using it for everything from my CS classes, to specifications at work, even versions of my resume. Well, it looks like Microsoft Word 2010 will finally offer similar typesetting in the form of OpenType ligatures. It’ll be nice to see how that pans out, and if [...]

Lamenting the Death of Computer Science

Someone over at the British Computer Society thinks that CS is a dying discipline in today’s university. The author is probably right.
We long for the days when assembler programming ruled, when programming was exciting and leading edge, when distributed computers were being created and there were uncharted vistas of applications to be written, and single [...]