That people keep discovering crazy ways to do new things in C++ (that were previously considered impossible) is both amazing and horrible. Maurice Bos…

It follows that functional programming has little to do with functional notation. It is a trivial and pointless task to rearrange some piece of symbolism into prefixed operators and heavy bracketing.…

Of all the lessons I’ve learned, there is one that can summarize them all in 3 simple words: everything is terrible. This text is an attempt to recount some of the hard-earned lessons I have ended up…

the global programming community, is fashion-driven to a degree that would embarrass haute couture designers from New York to Parisin the real world fashion trumps all. Steve Yegge, in the foreword t…

I see a great future for very systematic and very modest programming languages. E W Dijkstra (1972)…

Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary.  No such faith comforts the software engineer. Fred Brooks…

Math, you might say, is a conspiracy theorist’s dream: it’s the one part of life where, when you see things match up, the odds are excellent that it’s not just a coincidence, that there is a deep expl…

So what good are they at all? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9396950…