Comp Lang Perving
Syntax Soup
Semantic Noodle
On LISP
Python
More
More articles. (Due to the essays written over past 20 years, the articles are in different directory and hard to organize in a coherent categorization.)
Variable Naming
Social Issues
- Which Faakhead Invented Hello World?
- Why Software Tech is Ugly
- Proliferation of Programing Languages
- What Languages to Hate
- the Measure of a Language
- Laziness, Perl, and Larry Wall
- Larry Wall and Cults
- From Why Not Ruby to Screw Python Hello Ruby
- 3D Graphics Formats and Social Causes in Computer Languages
programing language popularity
Jargons of Software Industry
LISP
- What is Your Favorite Lisp
- Language, Purity, Cult, and Deception
- Scheme Lisp and Failure
- Why Qi Lisp Fails and Clojure Succeeds
- Lisp Macros and Practical Common Lisp
- I Can Not Find A Word Better Than “CAR”
- Will Lisp Ever Be Popular?
- My First Encounter and Impression of Lisp
- Lispers and Wikipedia
- Modernization of Emacs Lisp
- Lisp's List Problem
- Why You should Not Use the Jargons lisp-1 lisp-2
- Is Lisp's Objects Concept Necessary?
Tech Doc Humor
documentation idiocy collection
regex and parsing
Xah Regular Expression Articles Index
Misc, unsorted yet
- Avoiding Variables in Functional Programing
- Why is Namespace So Difficult?
- Why Learn Lisp When There Are Perl and Python