Comp Lang Perving

Syntax Soup

• Syntax Soup

Semantic Noodle

• Semantic Noodle

On LISP

• Xah on Lisp

Python

• Why Python Sucks

More Misc

More articles. (Due to the essays written over past 20 years, the articles are in different directory and hard to organize in a coherent way.)

• HTML Correctness and Validators
• Linden Scripting Language Problems

Variable Naming

• The Importance of Terminology's Quality In Computer Languages

Social Issues

• Smartest Programing Language Creators
• What Does it Mean for Programing Language to Have a Spec
• Who 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

• One Language to Rule Them All?

• From Why Not Ruby to Screw Python Hello Ruby
• 3D Graphics Formats and Social Causes in Computer Languages

Jargons of Software Industry

• Jargons of Software Industry

Tech Doc Humor

• Doc by Dummies

regex and parsing

• Xah Regular Expression Articles Index

unsorted

• What is One-Liner, Code Golf, Obfuscation Contest

• Avoiding Variables in Functional Programing
• Why is Namespace So Difficult?
• Why Learn Lisp When There Are Perl and Python

• Text Processing: Emacs Lisp vs Perl
• Emacs Lisp vs Perl: Validate Local File Links

Programing Challenge

Programing Problems Index