The Art of Writing Small Programs

This is a talk I gave at OSDC 2011 in Canberra, Australia.

I also gave a talk about a BBC Micro version of one-line Tetris in February 2020.

• Video (youtube)
• Slides
• Downloadable slides
• Links to things mentioned in the talk:
  • Sinclair ZX80
  • Science Museum in London
  • Z80 CPU
  • Sinclair MK14
  • ZX80 Keyboard Layout
  • Sinclair ZX81
  • Xapian
  • Commit mentioned in talk
  • Acorn BBC Micro
  • BBC Computer Literacy Project
  • 6502 CPU
  • Acorn Archimedes
  • ARM CPU
  • Tom Lehrer
  • “The Elements” (youtube)
  • Wittgenstein's rooms in Whewell's Court, Trinity College, Cambridge
  • David Moore's site about Rheolism
  • BBC BASIC
  • Extra Rheolism
  • RPCEmu
  • Perl Golf
  • OLPC (One Laptop Perl Child)
  • David Braben
  • Raspberry Pi