berserker-one

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A most impressive achievement for programming evangelism medium.com

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What's with the hate for Go? medium.com

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The Seven Wonders of the Coding World medium.com

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On the Russian threat (Smalltalk) medium.com

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Comment · 9 years ago

Yes, but who remembers Lisp? Whenever anybody mentions live coding and debugging, they immediately think of Smalltalk. Why? Because Smalltalk's implementation is memorable. Smalltalk's implementation is elegant. Lisp has always been rather clunky.

Common Lisp vs. Smalltalk medium.com

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On TRON and Steve Jobs and the Software Internet medium.com

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An Open Letter to All Universities medium.com

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I love JavaScript. What's wrong with that? medium.com

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Comment · 10 years ago

Those are great reasons! But I wonder, why do programmers really need integers?

Best reasons to use Smalltalk medium.com

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Comment · 10 years ago

Maybe because JavaScript encourages bad habits? It's a very sloppy and undisciplined language, esp. with its loose typing, crazy coercions and wildly inconsistent semantics. This language has far more "warts" than any other programming language in wide use today. Jeff Walker calls it a "minefield": http://walkercoderanger.com/blog/2014/02/javascript-minefiel...

Comment · 10 years ago

Of course, some businesses are using Node and JS, but are they using them for mission-critical enterprise work? Node and JS are great for web UI and mobile stuff, and applications of relatively modest size, but for really serious shit? I don't think so.