“Pickled Python Generator” would be an excellent name for a band. – Cal Jacobson

Made me smile… some more on the original post.

Investment in Open Source Software Set to Rise, Accenture Survey Finds

Crunchy cool. If you happen to be interested in the use of Open Source software in industry, of course.

Just in case any of you need ammo in talking to management any time soon.

Remember those Real Men of Genius Bud Light commercials on the radio? You know, the ones that salute unsung heroes like “Mr Hawaiian Shirt Pattern Designer,” “Mr Beach Metal Detector Guy,” and “Mr Male Fur Coat Wearer” with David Bickler singing rock ballad style in the background?

If they did one of these for Mads Torgersen, it would have to be:

“Mr Creates Recursive Lambda Expressions in C# via Y-Combinator Generated Fixed Point Functions Guy.”

I don’t remember the commercials, as it happens, but I agree with the sentiment (The original post that prompt this accolade is at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/madst/archive/2007/05/11/recursive-lambda-expressions…).

Looking into .net memoization techniques (seemed useful when I’m likely to be using a lot of recursive functions and webservice calls in the near future) seemed like a good idea at the time, but now I’m beginning to fear slightly for my sanity. Y-Combinators indeed…

And how do you pronounce memoize anyway?

This looks very cool. Seriously tempted as Newt birthday fodder, with thanks to my lovely wife for suggested search.

Now just to check if there’s anything better out there…