Archives for February 2010

Opposite idiomatic words

Useful idiomatic words that are frequently used in programming, e.g. “get/set”, “insert/delete”, etc.

K Language

One another language that looks quite weird at a first glance but promises to be damn effective.

Succinctness is power

Quite an interesting hypothesis of Paul Graham: My hypothesis is that succinctness is power, or is close enough that except in pathological examples you can treat them as identical. It seems to me that succinctness is what programming languages are for. Computers would be just as happy to be told what to do directly in [...]