Programming Languages 2017-13

Nothing tastes better than a great triumph, well, maybe if it wasn’t an accident, the Nerds could have felt a little better, but I guess we will never find out. I liked how the video had a different approach about the start of computing than most of all the other documentaries and videos, where they follow the same storyline (while it is impossible to change, but it can be seen from other points of view). One of the first statements was the one that struck me the most; the whole success of computing was an accident. They didn’t create (at first) the computer for scientific purposes, but for leisure and fun, especially for impressing their friends. The first personal computer had no initial purpose. It was just some group of buttons and switches paired together to make small operations. The memory was limited, the effort needed to make something was huge, but still, this was groundbreaking, because they made a successful machine capable of translating some kind of langu...

You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Nerds, not join them! Bring balance to the knowledge, not leave it in darkness! You were my brother *Insert Nerd name here*! I loved you! World acclaimed article; The Revenge of the Nerds I felt I had a déjà vu reading this article, somewhat related to the article written by Paul Graham “Beating the Averages”, it almost seems they were written by the same author… Anyways, this article seems like a continuation of that said post. And Lisp is described (again) as an underrated tool, powerful enough to wipe the competition, just as ITA’s application, where the market was being dominated by Travelocity and Expedia and later was overturned to ITA’s favor, thanks to the macros in their Lisp code. One of the topics I would like to address are the pointy-haired people, with the great qualities of knowing absolutely nothing of technology and having strong opinions about it. I have met a lot of people like that thr...