I would ask for a show of hands from those who consider this progress, but too many are happily riding the gravy train this abomination enables. http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/…

All without noise, fanboys, or haters. https://www.b7j0c.org/blog/joys_of_a_mature_community.html…

Not being “cool” means no fodder for the cottage industry of pundits (haters) who travel the web looking for something to disprove, subvert or negate with a glib bon motIts amazing what can be accompl…

Taking out the complexity from a programming language pushes it into the program https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/comp.lang.lisp/AhXjZBHFoQU…

Go is a great tool now, but I’m convinced that like perl, it will be ten times as good when ninety percent of the community moves on. https://www.b7j0c.org/blog/joys_of_a_mature_community.html…

Much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification. Fred Brooks, No Silver Bullet (1986)…

I have come to the conclusion that neither an eager (a/k/a strict, e.g. most languages) nor lazy (a/k/a total, e.g. Haskell) language is vastly superior to the other. They each have tradeoffs, because…

Now about “type safety” meme. Again, if the world consist only of numbers and abstract ideas, then, perhaps, it could make some sense. However, processes are not “linear”, classifications are not “tre…

When you lack the ability to express an abstraction within your language you compensate with verbosity and imprecision. This is as true in English as it is in programming languages.…

I mean, I’m a computer guy. I’ve seen trends rise and fall before I even bothered to really sink into them (because I was busy doing other stuff). In a way I feel like I"m losing touch with techn…

A name’s length should not exceed its information content. For a local variable, the name i conveys as much information as index or idx and is quicker to read. Similarly, i and j are a better pair of…

Turns out through the S3 API you can actually spin up EC2 instances, and my key had been spotted by a bot that continually searches GitHub for API keys. Amazon AWS customer support informed me this ha…