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Comments are "reached for rarely and last". Whatever shortcomings comments have pale in comparison to being faced with and trying to figure out undocumented or too sparsely comment…

Although some geniuses have mental disorders, don't make the mistake of thinking that all people with mental disorders are geniuses or have special insights - we're just run-of-the…

A number of programming languages allow an arbitrary range of indices for an array, including Ada, Fortran 77, and Pascal. See the "Specifiable Base Index" column in this table at …

I was a long-time Tcl user and loved it. [incr Tcl], incidentally, is not a play on "+=1", but "++"; i.e., [incr Tcl] is to Tcl as C++ is to C. Speaking of event loops, before Tcl …

Have you ever read a technical article by Donald Knuth? He is not brief; he writes engagingly about low-level details. David's posting was just fine, in fact great. The posting was…

Why is UTF-8 not an encoding for Unicode? From the Unicode website ( http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#UTF8 ): "UTF-8 is the byte-oriented encoding form of Unicode." From Wik…

I read a couple of papers on the backlash (even by expert economists) against the heavy emphasis on mathematics in economics, which, IIRC from the papers, began back in the 1940s. …

UCSD Pascal compiled to p-code. Other Pascals compiled to native code. The Wikipedia entry for Turbo Pascal indeed mentions that the TP-generated executables were extremely fast, w…

Early in my programming career, my team leader took me aside and explained how to write an effective and persuasive memo that would get through to management. It was valuable advic…

> What language do you think was perfect at it's first release? Algol 60.

Worked fine for me in Opera under Windows XP, although I got bored with the presentation by the time I got into the 120's pages and quit.

>> Still fun for me, after ~15 years of coding, 5 of them professionally. Lots of us did coding as a hobby for 10 years before gettting out into the professional world. With 5 year…