The continued adaptation, modification and correction of errors in them, is essentially dependent on a certain kind of knowledge possessed by a group of programmers

November 12, 2018 9:44 pm

From Roberto on Poland was shockingly liberal during the 1400s

"Also check out Laurentius Goslicius: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wawrzyniec_Grzymała_Goślicki Richard Cal..."

November 7, 2018 6:04 pm

From Henry Longmore on Why not use asserts in Python?

"Thanks for the article. I used to mock Eiffel for its "Design By Contract" as that seemed to be the only good ..."

November 5, 2018 7:51 pm

From lawrence on Zed Shaw is angry (abstraction and indirection)

"Cat Mara, that is a very good point. Even if some of the previous attempts were badly done, if someone claims ..."

November 5, 2018 3:03 pm

From Cat Mara on Zed Shaw is angry (abstraction and indirection)

"Lawrence- Also, are there aspects of Object Oriented Programming that you think make this tas..."

November 4, 2018 10:43 pm

From lawrence on Zed Shaw is angry (abstraction and indirection)

"Cat Mara, that is a good point about the way CORBA was deemed too complex but it was replaced by WS-* specs ev..."

November 4, 2018 2:59 pm

From Cat Mara on Zed Shaw is angry (abstraction and indirection)

"Laurence, it was your OO essay that brought me to your site and I've been reading your posts ever since. And I..."

November 4, 2018 1:44 pm

From lawrence on Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end

"Marcel Kincaid, your comment is itself an example of the No True Scotsman fallacy. If you look at the discussi..."

November 4, 2018 11:46 am

From lawrence on Zed Shaw is angry (abstraction and indirection)

"Cat Mara, I can agree with about half of what you say. It is true that Zed Shaw is criticizing some horrible o..."

November 4, 2018 10:34 am

From Cat Mara on Zed Shaw is angry (abstraction and indirection)

"Normally, I'd agree with a lot of what Zed has to say but I think he misses the mark here. Most of what he say..."

October 23, 2018 10:18 pm

From Marcel Kincaid on Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end

"The worst part of this article is its misunderstanding and abuse of the No True Scotsman fallacy. It *only* ap..."

October 23, 2018 9:52 pm

From Marcel Kincaid on Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end

"A silly polemic full of strawmen. Apparently the designers of Rust took it to heart, and as a result it's virt..."

October 18, 2018 7:15 pm

From Ahmed O Ali on The multiplicity of truth during the era of the Internet

"I think that the old attempts to unify the truth are the result of power, but today we are going to facts that..."

October 9, 2018 11:18 am

From Justin McGuire on Susan Kare invented the modern world

"I picked up her ICONS book a while back. It's an inspirational little art book, great for a geeky coffee table..."

September 20, 2018 5:23 pm

From Wayne on Have I been shadowbanned from Hacker News?

"Yep. I was also shadow banned from hacker news. Also, I saw a guy get banned from Hacker News for commenting t..."

August 27, 2018 1:04 pm

From Dave Paola on What's wrong with Hacker News

"I agree completely, although HN does support RSS feeds for user comments. I use this to follow people I respec..."