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So I think the lack of a real computer science today, and the lack of real software engineering today, is partly due to this pop culture. Alan Kay…
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Scheme thus still has a reason to exist, while Common Lisp does not. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LispSchemeDifferences…
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A fool and his syntax should soon be parted. http://xach.com/naggum/articles/[email protected]…
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Square brackets are a gross violation of the LISP Party Ethic and offending implementers shall be required to submit thorough self-criticism of their motivations and then will be summarily shot. I rea…
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Node may be larger than Go today, but in the long term, it’s going to be a flash in the pan. It is critically hobbled by the choice of Javascript as the base language, and events as the core abstracti…
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As a rule, any mention of religion on an online forum degenerates into a religious argument. Why? Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript or baking or other topics people talk about…
For people who complain about #Generics in #Golang
Let’s say we want to some integers from a file. Well, we can’t use InputStream directly, but we can use FileInputStream, a class which inherits directly from InputStream. Unfortunately, FileInputStrea…
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Most computers today, for all of their potential speed, are largely a mistake, based on the provenly unscalable Von Neumann architecture, controlled with one of the most shortsighted languages of all…
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It doesn’t work like this. http://www.quora.com/How-do-you-keep-your-programming-skills-sharp…
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My point is that the syntax is the easy part of learning a new language, just look it up in the manual. It is learning the semantics of the new language and how to use it efficiently to solve your pro…
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There has been a vehicle anomaly,” Orbital Sciences, the contractor supplying the rocket, said on its Twitter feed. It added later in a statement, “The vehicle suffered a catastrophic failure. http:/…
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I admit: I couldn’t keep up. Just learned Backbone.js and only found out it’s already out of fashion, I probably should have used ember.js. Trying to get a hold of ember.js, someone told me to use Met…