Semantic Noodle. Index

Object Oriented Programing

• Object Oriented Programing Jargons and Complexities (Explained as Functional Programing)
• History of Object Oriented Programing, by Casey Muratori (2025)

• Meaning of Object in Computer Languages
• Node.js Dot Notation as Namespace Mechanism (2013)
• JavaScript Method Chaning vs Function Composition (2015)
• Alan Kay on Object Oriented Programing
• Jargon: Polymorphism and Dispatch (2015)

Programing Language Specific Issues

• comp lang: Why I Hate Exceptions
• comp lang: Iterator, Enumerator, Abstraction Went Wrong (2016)
• comp lang: Should Array Index Start at 0 or 1?
• Why C Language Has the Main Function
• comp lang: is the Map Function Functional Programing in Syntax or Semantics
• comp lang: Should Map Function Specify Order
• comp lang: Function Dependency
• The Complexity of Java Access Specifiers

• comp lang: Bit Operators Idiocy
• What is Closure in Programing Language (2012)

Tail Recursion

• Why You Should Avoid the Jargon Tail Recursion (2002)
• JavaScript Tail Recursion Optimization (2023)
• Does Tail Recursion Optimization Necessitate Mutable Variable (Bob Martin) (2025)

On Programing Languages

• Natural vs Artificial Complexity in Programing Languages
• Ontology of Programing Languages
• comp lang: C Cpp Java Coders Don't Know Scientific Programing Languages (2015)

• History of Programing Languages in 1 Sentence (2018)

• Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century (1998 by John K Ousterhout. Tcl.)

• Programing Language Comparison: Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Lisp (2013)

• Functional Programing Languages History Diagram

Programing Languages and their Machines

• Why is Array Access Constant Time
• Programing Language and Its Machine (2024)
• Programing Languages and Their Computational Models
• Costs of Programing Language Operations

Unsorted

• Programing Language Design: String Byte vs Code Unit vs Code Point

• Programing Language: Fold vs Reduce

• comp lang: Interning String, Symbol (2025)

• Push Pop Array, Front or End

• Lexical vs Dynamic Scope Makes No Difference in Functional Programing

• What features of programing language makes it slow

• Why the Environment Variable System is Bad

• Programing Paradigms Complexity (2024)

• Homotopy Type Theory
• Programing Language Spec, What-Is vs How-To
• Math vs Programing, What-is vs How-to

• Edge Cases in Computing, and What Exactly is Whitespace?

• JavaScript Tail Recursion Optimization (2023)

• Learning Notes on Goto, Continuation, Coroutine (2010)

• Brainfuck Language EOF Design Problem (2015)
• Steve Yegge on Dynamic Programing Languages. 2008
• Empirical Analysis of Programming Language Adoption. By Meyerovich, Rabkin (2013)
• Functional Programing: is Real World Stateful?
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP), Scheme LISP, JavaScript
• A Functional Programing Architecture on JavaScript and Object Oriented Document Object Model (2013)
• Microsoft Apple Mozilla Dismiss Dart in Browser (2011)
• HTML6, JSON SXML Simplified (2010)
• What Made Lambda Calculus So Powerful?
• Why Does Struct Datatype Encroach Namespace?
• D3.js Visualization, a Quasi Science
• JS/DOM String Hell and Symbolic Languages (2018)
• Problem of Declarative Animation

• Pattern Matching vs Grammar Specification (2008)
• Why Must Software be Rewritten for Multi-Core Processors?

• Hardware Modeled (Von Neumann) Computer Languages and Functional-Level Languages
• Functional Programing: Function Output Should Always Have the Same Structure

Mumble Jumble of Byproducts of Computer Engineering

• Programing Language Design: Reference Considered Harmful
• Perl: Difference Between List and Array
• Are int, float, long, double, Side-Effects of Computer Engineering?
• Do Programing Languages Need the Concept of Call Stack (2021)

Bjarne Stroustrup: Why you should avoid Linked Lists

• Bjarne Stroustrup: Why you should avoid Linked Lists