Some of Richard O'Keefe's stuff

• A Tale of Two Tabulators (PDF), an essay I wrote for our software engineering paper in 2001 to illustrate the importance of adequate requirements.
• The slides from a 2016 talk about analysing the Rosetta Code repository studied by Nanz and Furia, pointing out that the programmer effect is bigger than the language effect.
• A very short essay What to do when the post-modernist calls.
• A brief note saying why, contra Eric Lippert, arrays as such are harmless, and the real problem is Java and C# failing to provide read-only arrays.
• Information about POP-2.
• A criticism of IMP77.
• stuff for COSC410 in 2011
• Errata for "The Craft of Prolog"
• Draft Prolog library proposal
• A proposal for child modules in Prolog and Erlang
• A proposal to add Processor, Process, Delay, Semaphore, and SharedQueue to the next version of the Smalltalk standard
• Draft of a "what help pages to start with" guide for R beginners.
• My INEX'03 paper(PDF)
• My INEX'04 paper(PDF)
• My ICOOOLPS'16 paper(PDF)
• software
• Brown, Bees, and Belly-Buttons, a very short look at The Da Vinci Code.
• On the (magic) Square, a very short look at The Lost Symbol.
• Is mathematics invented or discovered?
• Logical issues concerning “Q”
• What can we know about Mary Magdalene?.
• Are modern Bibles translations of translations of ...?
• A short piece about a Java anti-pattern..
• An essay about freedom of speech
• An essay about a fallacious argument.
• An essay about public health
• An essay about victimless crimes
• Some early results from a linguistic study of patents
• Response to reading the Novopay Technical Review
• Advice about preparing for and sitting exams, with detailed application to a 2nd year paper.
• An essay by Joe Armstrong against OOP