Use words with the correct grammatical connotations: nouns for variables, verbs for subroutines, adjectives for … Do not use clever words (GO TO HELL). Their cuteness wears off very fast and their mne…

a program is not really necessary for computation http://web.archive.org/web/20140107054458/http://yinwang0.wordpress.com/…

computation is the many ways we simulate the worldwe are actually using a computer for the same purpose: manipulating the world’s model. http://web.archive.org/web/20140107054458/http://yinwang0.word…

Practical Lisp systems provide a mechanism that allows users to add new derived expressions and specify their implementation as syntactic transformations without modifying the evaluator. Such a user-d…

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it’s easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it’s hard to fix. Rob Pike (print and frame it…

… Microsoft has an interest in the personal computer, while Google has an interest in taking us to an updated version of X terminals and 1960’s time sharing … Gilad Bracha, “Everyone is talking about…

Because computing is functional, because it is social, I think it must develop in an incremental and continuous fashion. Revolutionary ideas have to be parceled out in small packages, or be optional ……

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dfried/dfried/mex.pdf…

Programming is not about manipulating images or data, it is about constructing an imaginary machine consisting of thousands of moving partsIt is not “making programming available to regular folks — ho…

It’s why the Smalltalk IDE isn’t just written in the language, it quite literally is the language http://insearchofsecrets.com/2014/08/04/lisp-smalltalk-and-the-power-of-symmetry/…