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Some people like to refer to OS X as UNIX-like when it’s actually a UNIX. There was a time when it was UNIX-like and some people liked to refer to it as a UNIX, but it’s not now.

Posted on 2015-01-24 by Graham | Leave a comment

zed shaw: It didn’t matter that most of these detractors admitted to me that they don’t code C anymore, that they don’t teach it, and that they just memorized the standard so they could “help” people. […] I cannot help … Continue reading →

Posted on 2015-01-06 by Graham | Leave a comment

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

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

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

Meritocracy is a myth. And our belief in it is holding back the tech industry from getting better. The intent to be meritocratic is not a myth, but we know what road is paved with good intentions. —from Tech’s Meritocracy … Continue reading →

Posted on 2014-11-17 by Graham | Leave a comment

http://computinged.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/why-nerd-culture-must-die-not-everyone-can-teach-themselves/ Truth.

Posted on 2014-11-13 by Graham | Leave a comment

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2687011 There’s no such thing as a General-purpose processor, and belief in such a device is harmful.

Posted on 2014-11-09 by Graham | Leave a comment

Joe Armstrong thinks we don’t need modules in software. Instead, all functions should have unique names and be published in a global database.

Posted on 2014-11-08 by Graham | Leave a comment

http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2014/11/06/cobol-2014-perhaps-the-definitive-final-version-of-the-language/ Cobol now has function pointers :O

Posted on 2014-11-06 by Graham | Leave a comment