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VB.NET
I’m amazed that Microsoft didn’t get the VB.NET domain name.
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Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language
This is a great essay on what’s wrong with Pascal. But really, it’s a great essay on what are some of the nice touches of C that makes it such a good language.
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Universal Programming Literacy
My answer to a Quora question : What would happen in a world where almost everyone is programming literate? How might such a world (of universal programming literacy) come about? Most likely from a continuing trend to automate the way a lot of work gets done, and then people would learn programming as a way of…
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Adobe Brackets
Adobe’s Bespin-like editor, written in javascript / html. Sweet.
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Recursive Drawing
Recursive Drawing. Nice! Update : Try it, it’s awesome. Update 2 :
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Vi Hart on Making Her Videos
How To Make A Video About How To Make A Video About How To Make A Video About How To Make a Video… There’s something about Vi Hart’s recursive video about how she makes her videos which reminds me strongly of the Lispish ideal of having the Lisp interpreter available at write-time, compile-time and run-time.
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Plan 9 mounts and dependency injection
Cool.
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Do The Simplest Thing
Congratulations to Bill Seitz on launching his Personal Finance startup / project.
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My Simulations
Over the years I’ve done a few agent based simulations to look at questions that interest me. Here’s a quick Bootstrap page to get at them.