no syntax, no redundancy, no typingno heirarchy. No files. No operating system. http://www.colorforth.com/1percent.html…

to most people, the major difference between git and Subversion is that there’s a web site attached to git. http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-future-is-full-of-broken-machines.html…

“Dr Tarver, I need to do a final year project but I can’t do any programming” https://web.archive.org/web/20070418005048/http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/decline.htm…

Ever notice how often writers use the word “priesthood” to describe the operations teams in charge of mainframes? Rudolf Winestock, “The Eternal Mainframe”…

we just call it “the cloud” now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5059557…

No general procedure for bug checks will do. Now, I won’t just assert that, I’ll prove it to you. I will prove that although you might work till you drop, you cannot tell if computation will stop.…

“Any sufficiently complex input format is indistinguishable from bytecode; the code receiving it is indistinguishable from a virtual machine.“ https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login…

It’s natural for programmers to view the executable binary generated from their programs through the prism of their source code https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_aug15_02_bratu…

My personal list (mostly imperative languages) C++: (Complex software with elegance + performance ) * Dart source code * V8 source code (Same people as Dart) * LevelDB * Chrome (the only downsid…

But the idea everyone should learn how to code is as plausible as saying that everyone should learn how to plumb. To me it just makes no sense. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/09/evgen…