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

• Quality of Terminology 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 (2002)
• 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

programing language popularity

• What Determines a Computer Language's Popularity?
• Programing Language Popularity 2017
• Programing Languages Popularity Trend
• Computer Language Websites Popularity, Year 2008
• Erik Naggum and Why There Isn't An Ocean of “Lisp Jobs”

Jargons of Software Industry

• Jargons of Software Industry

Tech Doc Humor

• Doc by Dummies

regex and parsing

• Xah Regular Expression Articles Index

unsorted

• The problems of JavaScript (2025)

• Cpp Doc is Incomprehensible (2025)

• The General Purpose of Fold/Reduce Function (2025)

• Programing Language Design. Loop and Iteration. (2025)

• What is Bit Diddling (2025)

• Programing, on Creating Abstractions, OOP vs FP (2024)

• What Happens When You Replace C by Go in Linux (2024)

• Programing Language: Self-Reference Problem in String Syntax (2024)

• Is Programing Math? (2014)

• Does Programing Language Matter, and Story of the Gordian Knot (2024)

• Linus Torvalds on Line Truncation

• How's Shortest Code Solution Defined?

• Coding Style Conflict, Algorithmic Efficiency vs Repeated Source Code
• 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

Xah Talk Show

• Xah Talk Show 2021-02-06 Characteristics of Haskell, Perl, Ruby, Python, Clojure, Java, JavaScript, LISP, WolframLang
• Xah Talk Show 2020-05-23. Which programing language is worth learning? The Future of Lisp

Programing Exercise

• Code Fun: Index

by other people

• Iterators: Signs of Weakness in Object-Oriented Languages (By Henry G Baker, 1992)

• John McCarthy LISP, 1960. Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions
• History. Evolution of Lisp, Guy Steele, Richard Gabriel, 1993
• History. Evolution of Emacs Lisp 2020 By Stefan Monnier, Michael Sperber

• A Brief History of Software Engineering, by Niklaus Wirth (2008)

• Object Oriented Programing, Origin of Inheritance
• Rust in Perspective. Programing Language History. By Linus Walleij (2022)
• Python vs OCaml (2014)