Scripting News: Saturday, March 30, 2024
Saturday, March 30, 2024 Milestone: A FeedLand blogroll in a WordPress page . # Popular on Mastodon : "The reason it's nice to have old people around is that we don't care about the future in a personal way, so we might just tell you the truth." # The language of developers # I loved hanging out with fellow math and compsci majors in college and grad school. It's nice when you get to speak in the language of math and programming, where you can't be fuzzy about things, you have to be direct, because it's the only way to communicate. # No one attaches their feelings to the things other people say in this context. But sometimes it hurts anyway. I think I've told this story many times. I had posted some example code on the door to the office I shared with a few other teaching assistants at UW in the late 70s, and there was a mistake in it. It wouldn't have compiled if I had tried to run it. I was told by a TA who was