I don't have much to add to this but Ezra's saying things that are true: Tim Bray is spreading more misinformation about tail recursion. He describes it this way: It looks like a subroutine call, but in the case where it occurs as the last thing...

I'm not sure how many users I have of my json.plt PLaneT package, nor how many of them read my blog. But I thought I'd see if I could take a straw poll here. I'm thinking about changing the data definition in a backwards-incompatible way. What if I...

We've created a Mitchfest blog where we'll be posting updates on new material as it becomes available, including presentation slides, videos, and publication of issues of the Festschrift.

"What's surprising to me is that this language ever managed to achieve widespread use - but I guess it's just another example of how you can break a whole bunch of precious rules and the sky doesn't necessarily fall in. Software is full of people...