Enterprise Software Sucks but it Doesn’t Have To

Very good ideas from Jesus Rodriguez blog. Helps a lot to understand why Enterprise Software sucks. Also that this sad situation is mainly limited to Enterprise Software. And that there are alternatives.

The Age of the Algorithm

... UT Dallas researcher who speculates that as algorithms increasingly become the differentiator in software, algorithm developer jobs and algorithm engineering degrees may not be far behind.

Some thoughts on programming, buliding solid systems, functional programming, abstraction

Gerald Jay Sussman paper, Building Robust Systems: "The digital computer is a break-through of this kind, because it is a universal machine that can simulate any other information-processing machine."

Lisp: A language for stratified design, Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, AIM-986: "Lisp encourages one to attack a new problem by implementing new languages tailored to that problem".

PicoLisp, A Radical Approach to Application Development, Alexandre Burger, radical.pdf:

   - Deal with constant application change
   - Develop through an iterative process
   - Have a fully functional systema at each iteration
   - Lightweight and fast language
   - Compiled Lisp is not Lisp
   - Lisp is fast because it is a tree of executable nodes
   - On top of PicoLisp Burger built an application server which includes a Database and a Lisp based markup language
   - Information kept in one place
   - Abstracted library of functions

Check Pico-Lisp here.