Retro Programming

In contrast to the ever increasing memory available, a number of programmers are choosing to demonstrate their coding prowess by squeezing a...

Core War is a game from the 80's, played between computer programs written in Redcode, a language similar to assembly.  The programmers ...

Earlier this month I spent a week in Cornwall without access to a computer. In the true spirit of recreational programmers everywhere, this ...

Forget about fancy algorithms and data structures. If you want respect as an 80's hacker, follow these simple tips. Never get caught set...

Normally I don't participate in programming challenges, but something about the latest of Al Zimmermann's Programming Contests caug...

There's roughly 400 programming books on my bookshelf.  If I had to reduce it to just five, here are the books I just couldn't live ...

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. Donald Knuth, 1977 It is practically impossible to teach good...