Archive for February, 2008

No, Mr. Perl, I expect you to die

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Steve Yegge on Perl UPDATE: Oops, apparently it's from 2004. Still good, though.

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Monday, February 4th, 2008

The state of educational programming languages. Ideally, a proper programming education would start with a thorough discussion of how data is represented as bits, followed by a brief tour of encryption, compression, information theory, data structures, search/sort algorithms, and machine architecture. Unfortunately, students are just too impatient to start their education ...