How to Write a Spelling Corrector
An interesting article on how to write a spelling checker.
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Conventional OO syntax considered needlessly misleading
Great "article":http://nothinghappens.net/?p=214 on how a syntax can inform the way people think about programming.
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On abstraction
bq. Abstraction is the most powerful tool to reduce the complexity of a system and make it understandable. This is an amazingly simple concept that almost everyone ignores totally. They lose because of it. "source":http://xach.livejournal.com/113109.html
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Amplifiers...
Languages like Smalltalk and Lisp (always got to give Lisp its props) are amplifiers. They make you more of whatever it is that you already are. If you're a bad programmer, they're going to make you worse, they'll let you shoot your foot off in more interesting ways than you can imagine.
If you're a great programmer, they're going to make you that much greater, they're going to let you become a God, and live entirely in a universe of your own abstractions. Anything you don't like you can objectify or macro'fy and never have to think about it again.
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