Shriram Krishnamurthi

cs.brown.edu/~sk

I'm unreasonably fascinated by, delighted by, and excited about computer science and education (as well as cycling, cricket, and a few other things) and the general human experience.

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Teaching Programming Languages by Experimental and Adversarial Thinking

2018136 points17 comments Software Engineering details

After we published this paper, Matthias Hauswirth kindly pointed out similarities between this work and the PL-detective , a body of work that is very closely related that we did not previously know. Less similar but also related---and entertainingly written up---is smeagol . Since we published the paper, we have…

Scheme: The Swine before Perl

200950 points3 commentscited by 5Software Engineering details

In November 2001 I gave an invited talk at the inaugural Lightweight Languages conference that has since become somewhat notorious (in netspace, it is said to be “ kickassing genial ”).