On the appeal of different types of languages
From this HN comment: > The central question for any programming language isn't how comfortably it welcomes casual newcomers; it's how effectively it creates a human:machine interface for…
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Interesting talk by Peter Thule: youtu.be/ibR_ULHYi...…
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An interesting science v religion take: www.theguardian.com/science/2...…
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The problem with Scheme is that there are too many of them; TIL about Loko scheme. scheme.fail/manual/lo...…
Of Noogler times
Found this while spring-cleaning: Must have got this on my first day at Google, 12 years ago! Resolved not to hold on to things out of pure nostalgia (or there would be more of them than ones I use)…
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A range of Lisp typography (!) kazimirmajorinc.com/Documents...…
Ye Olde Linux
An account of “Linus-as-Martin Luther” from an article in Salon, 25 years ago: Linus Torvalds is an information-age reformer cut from the same cloth. Like Luther, his journey began while studying for…
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A short, tragi-comic account of GNU/FSF: www.spesh.com/danny/wri...…
Of moons and planets
Something fascinating from an “amateur analysis” of the moon’s orbit — the sort of thing I’m sure a lot of people wish they did but never do. In other words, the Sun exerts more than twice as much gr…
Remember ...
A very memorable song from "You've got mail" (about 25 years ago):…
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Getting romantic about the craft of programming :-) thorstenball.com/blog/2020...…
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On the difficult market for developer tools: www.kite.com/blog/prod...…