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Here is what I think he might be getting at: Advertisement is not a very effective form of marcomm because people tune it out, and if they don't, they don't believe what the ads sa…

I am familiar with functional programming. In fact, for some reason recursion and higher-order functions always seemed easy to me (unlike pointers and virtual methods), but I think…

I am saying that working with objects and methods requires less high-level cognitive processing than macros and continuations, not that you don't have to think about them. This is …

The point is that "requires you to think " is not a feature, it is a bug, because that thinking could be put to better use on whatever it is the program is trying to solve. Everyth…

I think most people prefer languages that let them think about the problem they are trying to solve, rather than think about what the macros expand to, or what happens when they ca…

However, as Tog himself notes, when the keyboard shortcut is already memorized and well understood, it's a clear productivity win. Tog never says that as far as I can tell.

Can you give examples of impractical things they do? (Or practical things they don't do).

Not on average. He will make many more errors typing www.amzaon.com than he will typing something resembling amazon well enough for google to find the site.

Reminds me of this old joke: - Mr. President! The Russians have landed on the moon, and they are busy painting it red! - No problem. When they are done, we will just write "Drink C…

Some fraction will also not have JavaScript enabled. That was very popular among nerds back when JavaScript wasn't essential to web browsing. Fortunately, that particular brand of …

> Do you think I would have done something as heavy-handed as compile s-expressions at runtime if it weren't necessary? Why not, if the language makes it simple? I am not claiming …

The theory says that for any two programming languages there is a constant c such that any given program can be translated from one to the other with only a c difference in size. T…

Heh, this is algorithm bait. The obvious algorithm is to sort all the words in order of increasing frequency, then print the 100 first. This algorithm is O(n log n) because of the …

The nice thing about C++ is that memory leaks are easy to fix. Valgrind is a pretty bad-ass tool. In garbage collected languages leaks can be very hard to track down. And they do h…

GPU's are getting more and more programmable, while CPU's are getting more and more cores and streaming instructions. It's getting harder and harder to tell them apart and this mea…