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.
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 …
Adobe Brackets
Adobe’s Bespin-like editor, written in javascript / html. Sweet.
Social Media 2012
My comment on Alex’s blog : Well, you already know but I still think wiki has a future, as pointed to by Smallest Federated Wiki. There are some flaws / issues with SFW, mainly I think because not enough people are working on it, but it’s still the signpost for how wiki could evolve. Would …
Recursive Drawing
! Update : Try it, it’s awesome. Update 2 :
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.
Plan 9 mounts and dependency injection
Cool.
Do The Simplest Thing
Congratulations to Bill Seitz on launching his Personal Finance startup / project.
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.