End of software? No

What happened to software? Why is there so few creative software (2010)? Are we at the end of software? What are the forces which led to this situation, looking like a bit step backward to the epoch of non-programmable accounting machines? Is there a way out of this situation? Yes, and a very simple one: make good software. With invention. Developing models and abstractions. It is difficult but absolutely possible. It this re-start of software I wish to explore here in this blog. Welcome

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sábado, 28 de setembro de 2013

Programming without variables

Follow Andrew Koenig's excellent blog with a series on programming whithout variables.

segunda-feira, 24 de dezembro de 2012

The Lisp Curse

thought-provoking essay. Good ideas. "Lisp's expressive power is actually a cause of its lack of momentum."

domingo, 9 de janeiro de 2011

Lisp. Maxwell's equations for computation indeed

David Nolens' Posterous blog, Lazy Evaluation vs. Macros. He really appreciates Lisp:

"The key insight of Lisp is that a programmer or a community of programmers should have have the whole of computation at their finger tips." Which goes in the direction I recommend: programmability.

"So the real question moving forward isn't "Is Lisp too powerful?", rather, "Are our mainstream programming languages and paradigms too damn weak?"."

domingo, 14 de novembro de 2010

LISP

Muitas referências:

The Roots of Lisp, P.Graham, 2002: o que McCarthy descobriu

Lisp e Java, Lisp e XML: Lisp and Java by Dan Milstein, 03/24/2004. LISP is better than XML, but worse is better by Rick Jelliffe, December 5, 2004.

And more: Why I Love Lisp and The Future of Lisp.