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Perl 6 and the Price of Elegant Code
The project that first made me fall in love with Perl… Perl 5 had recently launched, with new features for object-oriented programming, includable modules, lexically scoped variables, and references—including closures. At the time, I was writing boot code, diagnostics, and … Continue reading
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Tagged benchmarks, Kurzweil Music Systems, Perl, Perl 6, prime numbers
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State-of-the-Art Computer Folklore (part 3)
This is part 3 in my series of how the Mac reminded me why I fell in love with software development, and why it still matters. While reading Andy Hertzfeld’s anecdotes (and those of his colleagues) of designing the original … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, computers, Damon/IEC, history, Kurzweil Music Systems, Macintosh, Tom Metro
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Why I No Longer Belong in a Dilbert Cube
The biggest block of time in my software-development career I spent working in an extraordinary job, a very special place to work, with a very special group of people, for 14 years. Throughout the dot-com boom, I stayed there, ignoring … Continue reading
