On "subsetting"
A quote, with some good insights about the evolution of (programming) languages If we were to follow Rich Hickey's advice, we'd only ever accrete our APIs, never removing old functions, never…
simplicity
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The C-only train has left the station. Few departments teach surveys of programming languages anymore, and I don’t know of any department that teaches a required course in history of computing. I wor…
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I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there…