Continuity
Saw this interview of Neil Postman: Observations: * From 1988, so a lot of contrast (three and a half decades have passed) * Mentions discontinuity as an issue * How a big change of the past two…
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A simple calculator in Scala
Here1 (credits to Ben Lynn2) is a simple calculator in Haskell. I decided to try porting it over3 to Scala. The original example also makes this work in Javascript using Haste; I’ve left this out for…
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…
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By studying a number of examples, we have come to the conclusion that programs in less expressive languages exhibit repeated occurrences of programming patterns, and that this pattern-oriented style i…
On the evolution of GUIs
From 1998 [http://xach.com/naggum/articles/3115189096274592@naggum.no.html] Today’s GUI’s are generally built out of hard-coded event handlers. A language that could describe the display and the eve…
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Making that happen in a language design should involve some subtle shifts in the way data is conceptualized. That isn’t a digression in a discussion of types, because the way we conceptualize data ha…