Great quote, speaking of switching languages: "Not that the unsafe users actually switch; that's just how long, on average, it takes the majority of them to be killed accidentally by their product, leaving only the new, safer programmers behind."
Read more at www.cabochon.com/~steve...Sunday, August 20, 2006
Friday, August 18, 2006
The Emacs Problem
Steve's thoughts in part spurred me to write a little peice of my own, at my main blog.
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Patent review goes Wiki
It's a step in the right direction, but you need to be careful that this is used as a process improvement rather than an excuse to cut costs and have the PTO spend even less time reviewing patents. Of course a solution to that problem would be to institute a multi-tier patent system where peer review would get you some benefits, but PTO review would be even more thorough for those that go to the next level.
See this: http://ryan-technorabble.blogspot.com/2006/07/why-we-need-multi-tiered-patent-system.html
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See this: http://ryan-technorabble.blogspot.com/2006/07/why-we-need-multi-tiered-patent-system.html
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.NET and J2EE to get better dynamic language support
It's interesting to see better dynamic language support in the runtimes, but I think the question of functional programming support is the core languages is far more important.
Already today, both runtimes have implementations of dynamic languages. The main difference here is ease of port and performance. Performance has not usually been a high priority for dynamic language users so that's minor.
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Already today, both runtimes have implementations of dynamic languages. The main difference here is ease of port and performance. Performance has not usually been a high priority for dynamic language users so that's minor.
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Being the Averagest - Steve Yegge's Drunken Blog Rants
I've been reading through Steve's old rants with about the same level of interest as when I first discovered Paul Graham. Since they kind of say alot of the same things, in very different ways, that's pretty good.
This one really hit home however. I think there is a bit of Bob in all of us. I certainly spend alot of time trying to learn, but I'm forced to admit it's not because I think I'm a crappy programmer and need to get better. It's because I just plain have fun doing it. But I could be better, and Steve's totally right about that.
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This one really hit home however. I think there is a bit of Bob in all of us. I certainly spend alot of time trying to learn, but I'm forced to admit it's not because I think I'm a crappy programmer and need to get better. It's because I just plain have fun doing it. But I could be better, and Steve's totally right about that.
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