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by horrido 11y ago
Not insightful? I'm the author. I drew attention to several important facts about JavaScript... 1) The language has terribly inconsistent semantics, esp. with regards to its loose typing and aggressive coercions. 2) Just because JavaSc
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by horrido 11y ago
Before everybody jumps the gun, this article is a piece of satire . It's meant to be funny. It's meant to entertain you , as well as inform you. Please take it in the spirit in which it was written. Enjoy.
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An Open Letter to ECMA(medium.com)
3 points by horrido 11y ago|1 comments
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by horrido 11y ago
9) Not a problem, per se, but it's the expectation that JS is a great language. This erroneous belief is misleading and dangerous, drawing in people who don't know any better. 10) As I said, while you can't get JS out of the
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The Top Things Wrong with JavaScript(medium.com)
6 points by horrido 11y ago|2 comments
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by horrido 11y ago
Hmmm, apparently my attempt at sarcasm is going over the heads of my readers. Whoosh! Perhaps I need to be less subtle...
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The Argument Against Climate Change(medium.com)
3 points by horrido 11y ago|2 comments
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JavaScript cannot be fixed(medium.com)
3 points by horrido 11y ago|1 comments
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The Eng Language Index(medium.com)
1 points by horrido 11y ago|0 comments
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by horrido 11y ago
Actually, it doesn't matter. Visualization is hard work. Meditation is hard work. It's all the same.
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Demystifying Bodhi Meditation(medium.com)
1 points by horrido 11y ago|2 comments
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Size Doesn't Matter(medium.com)
1 points by horrido 11y ago|0 comments
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What's wrong with developers today/(medium.com)
3 points by horrido 11y ago|0 comments
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Elon Musk could transform the tech world and improve people’s lives(medium.com)
2 points by horrido 11y ago|0 comments
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T.H.O.R(medium.com)
2 points by horrido 11y ago|0 comments
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Against Overwhelming Odds(medium.com)
1 points by horrido 11y ago|0 comments
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by horrido 11y ago
Exactly right! Smalltalk never recovered because of its PR problem. Smalltalk has been free (or inexpensive) for over 15 years now.
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by horrido 11y ago
Exactly! As mentioned in the article, Alan Kay's vision of OOP was corrupted into the rubbish we see today in C++, Java, Scala, etc. Today's conventional OOP is nothing more than an extension to Abstract Data Types...useful, but n
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Why Aren't People Using Smalltalk?(medium.com)
5 points by horrido 11y ago|6 comments
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by horrido 11y ago
Yes, it's true. Most Smalltalk dialects use a special IDE. This is because the biggest advantage of using Smalltalk for development is the "live" programming environment where you can examine any object in the executing progr
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What are the biggest reasons for not using Smalltalk?
6 points by horrido 11y ago|8 comments
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The Three Worst Programming Languages(medium.com)
3 points by horrido 11y ago|2 comments
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You are now an Ambersmith(medium.com)
1 points by horrido 11y ago|0 comments
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Smalltalk's Real Competition(smalltalkrenaissance.wordpress.com)
2 points by horrido 12y ago|0 comments
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Smalltalk's Proven Productivity(smalltalkrenaissance.wordpress.com)
3 points by horrido 12y ago|0 comments
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The Smalltalk Evolution(smalltalkrenaissance.wordpress.com)
1 points by horrido 12y ago|0 comments
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Web2py Kicks Ass(medium.com)
2 points by horrido 12y ago|0 comments
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by horrido 12y ago
BTW, functional programming does not impress me at all... "Programming with the Object Oriented paradigm is creating a program by identifying and modeling the Problem Domain Entities as objects, and then make them collaborate between t
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by horrido 12y ago
Be prepared to be surprised. Yes, historically Smalltalk has evolved rather slowly. However, with the Pharo project, Smalltalk is enjoying a resurgence because the project is working vigorously to evolve Smalltalk to the next level. Check b
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Dart is Dead(medium.com)
27 points by horrido 12y ago|14 comments

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