The old-time Unix culture has largely reinvented itself in the open-source movement. Doing so saved us from extinction, but it also means that the problems of open source are now ours as well. Eric S…

My ideal for the future is to develop a file system remote interface (a la Plan 9) and then have it implemented across the Internet as the standard rather than HTML. That would be ultimate cool. – Ke…

Although the early years in the twenty-first century seem to be favoring the Lisp-school philosophy, I predict the balance of the century will belong to the Fortran-school programmers who are able to…

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There is no escape, can’t you feel the cold hand of cycle-elimination, and blusterification stroking the back of your neck, ready to snag you by a lock of your hair and shove you head first into the X…

it was not industry that invented the term “computer literacy”, but society EWD 952…

In Lisp’s quest for industrial respect, it abandoned its traditional customersFortranCobol – http://www.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CritLisp.html…

The Multinet would permeate society, Lick wrote, thus achieving the old MIT dream of an information utility, as updated for the decentralized network age: “many people work at home, interacting with c…

AK You have to be a different kind of person to love C++. It is a really interesting example of how a well-meant idea went wrong, because [C++ creator] Bjarne Stroustrup was not trying to do what he h…

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