The world's most popular functional language, and what it teaches us
I realized today, when I read the phrasing of this LtU post , that my last two posts were too pessimistic about functional prog…
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More on programming language adoption, from Meyerovich and Rabkin
A little bit of vindication from Meyerovich and Rabkin; a quote I found particularly interesting (emphasis added): A given prior…
Is education to blame for functional programming's minority status?
Rice University's Swarat Chaudhuri asks (and attempts to answer) the perennial question: why isn't functional programmin…
Tree structure and comment threads (a brief observation)
It has been claimed that flat, linear presentation of comments appears to work better for humans than tree-structured comment th…
A simple handwave that makes The Matrix tolerable for the scientifically literate
Suppose that controlled fusion power requires real-time control computations which can be much more efficiently implemented in ne…
On the verbosity of Java generics and related type systems
So, recently T. B. Lee tweeted : Java's generics syntax feels really clumsy. Are there other (strongly typed) languages that …
How to design a popular programming language
This has been kicking around in my brain for at least half a decade, and if you know me well then I've probably spoken it alo…
Computer science and the iPhone developer agreement
Full disclosure: I work for Google . However, this blog reflects my personal opinions only . Programming and computer science ar…
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