I hadn't seen what raganwald was up to since he stopped writing at his blog... Turns out he's still hacking in Ruby and writing interesting articles :-)
I really love raganwald's writing and code, but something about his series on Smullyan's combinator birds is unsettling to me.
It's like _why's writing in that it is fanciful, but without the sustained authorial whimsy. I think it might be because Reg is not the original source of the oddness, he's performing it for a new audience.
I applaud his efforts, however unnerving, he's at the wild frontier of technical writing!
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I applaud his efforts, however unnerving, he's at the wild frontier of technical writing!