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First.io | Back-End Engineer | Rails/Postgres | Durham NC or Remote | Full-time First is a venture-funded startup at the intersection of artificial intelligence and real estate tec…

The point about partial programs is a particularly strong one, especially when it comes to test-driven development. Being able to write a test for a method or function before that …

Ah, OK. (And yes, I remember you. You ran the FW JUG for a while?)

Ah, good to know. But at the time, they were mostly valid criticisms.

Well, right. Tcl was an early example of a trend where key data structures were built into languages and fairly well encapsulated as "one size fits all" abstractions. Computers had…

I'm pretty sure that was Chris Morris. (He and I were both regulars at that group.)

There was a semi-rebuttal … I think in a post from Brent Welch. Tcl does have things called "arrays", and you use them much as you'd expect. Tom Lord confirmed later that what he a…

Two things about it make me think that RMS actually wrote it (probably after consultation with Lord). The first is this sentence in that post by Lord: "Who cares if a post occurs u…

Heh. In a recent overhaul of my site, I considered taking these pages down. But they do still get a reasonable amount of traffic, and I hate broken links. Thanks to amelius for the…

It did later come out that Tom Lord wrote it, but not as a prank; he was working with RMS to build Guile, and this was the opening salvo in trying to build the case for it. RMS did…