Format Online paper / PDF "Lexical closures became an important feature of the Lisp family through Scheme in the 1970s." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER “Fuck it. Let’s Release” Source title SCHEME: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus Source authors Gerald Jay Sussman; Guy Lewis Steele Jr. Source year 1975 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Online paper / PDF "Lisp macro facilities were already documented in the early 1960s." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER “Fuck it. Let’s Release” Source title LISP LIBRARY NOVEMBER 1963 Source authors MIT Artificial Intelligence Project Source year 1963 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Online paper / PDF "Garbage collection was already part of Lisp implementations by the early 1960s." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER “Fuck it. Let’s Release” Source title LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual Source authors John McCarthy; Paul W. Abrahams; Daniel J. Edwards; Timothy P. Hart; Michael I. Levin Source year 1962 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Online paper / PDF "Dijkstra also condemned COBOL as harmful to programmers’ thinking and its teaching as unacceptable." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER “Fuck it. Let’s Release” Source title How do we tell truths that might hurt? Source authors Edsger W. Dijkstra Source year 1975 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Online paper / PDF "In 1975, Dijkstra wrote that prior exposure to BASIC made teaching good programming practically impossible." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER “Fuck it. Let’s Release” Source title How do we tell truths that might hurt? Source authors Edsger W. Dijkstra Source year 1975 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "BASIC was designed to make programming accessible to beginners and people outside specialist computing disciplines." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER “Fuck it. Let’s Release” Source title BASIC Begins at Dartmouth Source authors Dartmouth College Source year 2018 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "The median programming language evolves slowly despite the rapid development of computing technology." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER “Fuck it. Let’s Release” Source title Beating the Averages Source authors Paul Graham Source year 2001 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "Programming languages are not just technology but what programmers think in, and are partly technology and partly religion." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER “Fuck it. Let’s Release” Source title Beating the Averages Source authors Paul Graham Source year 2001 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "The rate of evolution in programming languages is more like the rate of evolution in mathematical notation than transportation or communications." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER “Fuck it. Let’s Release” Source title The Hundred-Year Language Source authors Paul Graham Source year 2003 Confidence high Importance high
Format Book / Offline paper "Languages evolve slowly because they are not merely technologies but formal notation, much like mathematical notation." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER “Fuck it. Let’s Release” Source title Hackers & Painters Source authors Paul Graham Source year 2004 Confidence high Importance high
