screwlisp on Nostr: http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/Lunar/all_programming_languages_are_wrong.html #moon ...
http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/Lunar/all_programming_languages_are_wrong.html
#moon #programming
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How did this happen? I blame it on Algol in the 1960s and then Simula and Smalltalk, which essentially added dynamic features to Algol. From that point on, programming language design had started on the wrong foot and remains confused 50 years later.
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(Moon argued that classes and methods were most often a terrible way to induce programmers into writing).
#moon #programming
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How did this happen? I blame it on Algol in the 1960s and then Simula and Smalltalk, which essentially added dynamic features to Algol. From that point on, programming language design had started on the wrong foot and remains confused 50 years later.
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(Moon argued that classes and methods were most often a terrible way to induce programmers into writing).