Artful Code

Everyone knows not to use goto, right? Dijkstra’s words on the subject have risen to the level of gospel in the programming community. Not that I do not completely agree… in most cases.

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A few of us are old enough to remember the days before the Internet, when “online” meant you had Prodigy, AOL, or CompuServe. Some of us are venerable enough to predate even those dinosaurs and recall the age of 300 baud modems, Telix, typing ATDT into the terminal, and local BBSes with names like Gunner’s Grotto and Elfstone (and if you recognize those two, you probably know where I lived in high school). I spent quite a few late nights chatting on the Grotto, a lavish MajorBBS with more than a dozen phone lines on rotary. I remember getting that brand new 9600 baud modem and being awed by its speed.

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Rails, Django, Spring – application frameworks like these are now ubiquitous in the development of web-based applications. This is part of a trend in many general purpose languages of building toward the web. For these, the application framework is not just a buzzword; it is the abstraction used to build the language up to the [...]

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I’m old enough that I remember when email happened on the local university’s VAX system or by dialing into some yahoo’s computer running Angelfire BBS with four phone lines.  I remember just how blazingly fast a 9600 baud modem seemed.  I’m even old enough to remember typing ATDT into Telix :).  Alright, I’m only 30, [...]

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newLISP receives an unexpected level of hostility from lispers. Languages like Arc and newLISP share an enmity that stems from the assumption that these languages are in some way attempting to replace Common Lisp. This is not the case.

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