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The more I hear about Artificial Intelligence the more ridiculous becomes its often heard defense that Artificial Intelligence has contributed so much to programming technology –for both, the claim an…
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this confirmed all my prejudices against pictures. EWD #798 (lol!)…
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LISP’s syntax is so atrocious that I never understood its popularity. LISP’s possibility to introduce higher-order functions was mentioned several times in its defence, but now I come to think of it,…
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… our only hope is that, by revealing the intellectual contents of programming, we will make the subject attracting the type of students it deserves, so that a next generation of better qualified prog…
On the competing philosophies of Lisp and ML
Type-checking is really where the trench is dug between Lisp and ML. The prescence of type-checking in ML (and its absence even in recent implementations of Lisp) is reflective of two competing philos…
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People use C because it /feels/ faster. Like, if you build a catapult strong enough that it can hurl a bathtub with someone crouching inside it from London to New York, it will feel /very/ fast both…
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The informational big bang. http://www.ymeme.com/kent-m-pitman-answers-lisp-much-more-part-2.html…
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The process of adapting to new intellectual technologies is reflected in the changing metaphors we use to explain ourselves to ourselves. When the mechanical clock arrived, people began thinking of th…
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Software has become a universal language, the interface to our imagination and the world. What electricity and the combustion engine were to the early 20th century, software is to the early 21st centu…
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Lisp and Haskell to my mind form the two leading languages of two fundamentally contradictory families. Lisp works by empowering programmers and building on that power, and Haskell works by limiting t…
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[Pop culture] has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future — it’s living in the present. I think the same is true of most people who write code for money. They have no idea where [their…
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The tech business is proud of its workaholism, but it really shouldn’t be. It’s a sign of immaturity and poor management, not drive. http://www.marco.org/2014/12/14/from-open-unlimited-to-minimum-vac…