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My programming languages history
My programming languages history I find it fascinating to read personal programming histories and seek them out whenever possible (still waiting for one from Grant Rettke, Ola Bini, Rich Hickey, Dan Weinreb, and D.R. MacIver). In case anyone is interested, my own programming story is below. 1983 – 1990: Commodore 64 BASIC Made RPG and […]
Pet Projects
I have accumulated a set of pet projects that I tend to cycle through when learning new languages. Each pet project scratches a certain itch and each requires differing approaches for solving. When learning a new language I like to solve two or more of these pet projects in order to get a feel for the capabilities and shortcomings of said language.
Abused Computing Terms
After reading David MacIver’s recent post on the term functional I thought it would be interesting to compile a list of computing terms and ideas that are often abused: Functional DSL Combinator Closure Monad (on the rise) Lisp has no syntax Immutability (more so in practice) “… Considered Harmful” Hacker Enterprise The Cloud AJAX REST […]
Baysick: A Scala DSL Implementing BASIC
This post was featured on the Scala website. It is advised to jump there first and then sneak back here … eventually. A couple weeks back I came across a post on creating the simplest possible BASIC DSL written in Scala by Szymon Jachim. The implementation itself was dead simple to understand, but I suspected […]
(Building) The 7 Books of a Highly Effective Programmer
Like many programmers, I’m always on the lookout for the perfect programming book. Over the years I have tried to enumerate a few key examples, however after reading them all I am still left wanting. However, I recently came across a couple interesting blog posts [^motivation] that motivated me that the only way to find the set of perfect books for programmers was to build them myself.