Today, when compared to any other point in programming history, we find ourselves spoiled for choice when it comes to programming…
The Next 7000 Programming Languages
Landin’s seminal paper “The next 700 programming languages” considered programming languages prior to 1966 and speculated on the next 700. Half-a-century on, we cast programming languages in a Darwinian ‘tree of life’ and explore languages, their features (genes) and language evolution from the viewpoint of ‘survival of the fittest’.
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It - …
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A break from programming languages
This is a blog post I have been considering writing for a long time.
Forgotten Programming Ideas That Could Change Everything #shorts
Why the fuss about conversational programming?
First, there isn’t much fuss … yet. But there will be.
The Story of C++: The World's Most Consequential Programming Language | The Official Story
Convivial design heuristics for software systems
The theme of this workshop is the proliferation of ideas about calling into question the cultural roots of our current programming languages, and the search for alternative paradigms with other cultural bases.
Elements of Programming
After ten years in print, our publisher decided against further printings and reverted the rights to us. Elements of Programming is now available in two forms: a free PDF and a no-markup paperback.
Amy J. Ko : Searching for Justice in Programming Language Design
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.
A quote from Andrew Quinn
One could say in the first quarter-century of my life, that while I was always fascinated by programming, I could never overcome the guilt of not really knowing whether the …
Nobody Cracks Open a Programming Book Anymore · unix.foo
A sad look at the state of modern programming books.
Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic | Retool
How Visual Basic became the world’s most dominant programming environment, its sudden fall from grace, and why its influence is still shaping the future of software development.
A small matter of programming: perspectives on end user computing
A Small Matter of Programming asks why it has been so d…
The future of programming and computing
Trends and adjacent possibles for the future of how computers are used and programmed
SaaS Isn’t Dead. Sameness Is. - The Phoenix Architecture
Codifying a ChatGPT workflow into a malleable GUI
MercuryOS
Telepath's Sensemaking Computer Upends Personal Computing
Vendo · Your product, shaped to every customer
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