book review: Recursion

onefinemess | November 26, 2009

by: Tony Ballantyne
I’m pretty sure it’s the idea that sold this book.  It’s a good one, and I suspect the writer is either a computer programmer, or read up a lot on how to sound like one.  It’s believable enough, but at times it seemed a bit forced.
The writing is serviceable, but not particularly grabbing [...]

recent & future readings

onefinemess | November 17, 2009

Currently reading: Recursion by Tony Ballantyne.
I forget how I found this, suggested by people who liked something or other, somewhere webmagical maybe?
It’s decent so far although there is a glaring typo on the first page.  Second paragraph.  Wow, really??  Unless … in British English does “prize” mean the same thing as “pry”?
“Now they would [...]