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Soup

Oct 25, 2018 some comments

As I listen to “Soup” by Can I’m reminded of the time when Alan Kay took some time to post on Hacker News addressing his thoughts and ideas about object-oriented programming. For raw context read the original thread, but in this post I’ll attempt to annotate some of what was posted. For the purpose of […]

FP vs. OO, from the trenches.

Jul 22, 2013 some comments

I’ve been programming for quite some time and have explored a variety of programming paradigms along the way. From time to time people will ask1 which is better: functional programming or object-oriented programming. Having done both extensively in my time I can exclaim a resounding: it depends. Lame. While I’ll never be a major player […]

Linkage 2007.12.07

Dec 7, 2007

Overpaying for middle relief<br/> In general, teams are content to spend available resources in a manner consistent with the way others in the industry have spent those same resources. Wall on programming, scripting, and langdev<br/> In Perl 6 all methods are virtual by default, and only the application as a whole can tell the optimizer […]

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