Abstract Heresies

A comment on my previous post said, The most difficult thing when coming to a different language is to leave the other language behind. Th...

It's no secret that I'm an aficionado of Lisp. It's my go to language, especially when I don't know what I'm doing. ...

One good use of continuation passing style is to manage dynamic resources. The resource allocation function is written in continuation ...

Google's golang was designed for mediocre programmers that aren't “capable of understanding a brilliant language”. It omits fea...

There is a guy who is making a series of videos where he takes a “first look” at various programming languages. I watched his “first lo...

I use goto all the time. When I have a loop, I goto the top of the loop after each iteration. When a function delegates to another fun...

The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically fairly young, fresh out of school, probab...