Monthly Archives: December 2014

I imagine many of you are familiar with the difference between Ruby (a beautiful language representing the best pragmatic balance between Smalltalk’s elegance and C’s ubiquity) and Rubby (a horrendous mishmash of abominations in the style of all scripting languages, … Continue reading →

Posted on 2014-12-31 by Graham | Leave a comment

In which I resolve

Posted on 2014-12-28 by Graham

When I was a student I got deeply into GNU and Linux. This has been covered elsewhere on this blog, along with the story that as Apple made the best UNIX, and the lab had NeXT computers, I went down … Continue reading →

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Derek Jones, from the PL advent calendar ‘J’ entry: Javascript would not have existed without the Internet and its ‘design’ must be a contender for the most costly software mistake [ever] made. Me, 14 months ago: Fundamentally I fear a … Continue reading →

Posted on 2014-12-10 by Graham | Leave a comment

Object-Oriented Programming in 1714

Posted on 2014-12-07 by Graham

Here are some excerpts from Leibniz’s La Monadologie (specifically from Daniel Garber and Roger Arlew’s English translation in Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays). THE MONAD, which we shall discuss here, is nothing but a simple substance that enters into … Continue reading →

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An odd thought: I have written software for a computer whose CPU was used as an I/O controller for a computer that I have programmed, whose CPU was used as an I/O controller for a computer that I have programmed. … Continue reading →

Posted on 2014-12-07 by Graham | Leave a comment

Programming language advent

Posted on 2014-12-01 by Graham

http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2014/12/01/algol-60-awk-algol-68-ada-apl-and-assembler/ The first article, containing languages beginning with ‘A’, is linked above. I can tell this is going to be a month of reading.

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