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James O'Beirne

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Coding backwards

For a while I’ve wanted to write some personal finance software. Call me crazy, but I can’t find anything currently in existence that allows me to project my earnings and expenses 1 , then summarizes the net effect over a period of time. Basically, I want to be able to propose a budget to myself and simulate how it…

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Lisp: More is less

There’s recently been a resurgence of interest in Lisp (specifically, Clojure) in my neighborhood. I have some kind of a fondness for Lisp, but I think some of its characteristics make it poorly suited for use in large programming efforts. Indeed many of the unique properties that Lisp devotees (myself once included)…