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Is JavaScript the new Lisp? I seem to have been blissfully unaware of just how far JavaScript has come over the last decade or so. I wanted to make a foray into mobile app programming (ah ok, nothin…
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Propagating, artfully
Just came across [this paper] today, and it was super-interesting. (I’m assuming the title is a reference to [an earlier one] by Steele and Sussman). You can read the abstract, or [watch Sussman talk…
Programming is like writing
From a comment on Slashdot: My current theory is that programming is quite literally writing. The vast majority of programming is not conceptually difficult (contrary to what a lot of people would ha…
Alan Kay: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet
Watching this amazing video by Alan Kay, at OOPSLA 1998. It starts off fairly normal, with some reminiscing about Smalltalk, but then slowly spirals onward and upward, generating one BIG insight afte…