Comp Lang Perving

Syntax Soup
Semantic Noodle
On LISP
Python
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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