Why Programming Languages Are Hard To Teach 📺 (2014)
Why Programming Languages Are Hard To Teach
I've been teaching programming for a few years now, and I've come to realize that the harder a languages is to teach, the more poorly designed it is.
—Zed Shaw
- https://vimeo.com/53062800
- It's Not You, It's Them: Why Programming Languages Are Hard To Teach
- presentation by Zed Shaw.
- from Øredev Conference PRO.
- 2013
- Lots of programer celebrities are idiots, or scam artists.
- The idiotish includes: Guido (Python).
- The scam artistish includes: Larry Wall (Perl), Martin Fowler (agile shit), etc.
- Zed Shaw: Rails Is A Ghetto
- Coding Style: Why Idioms Are Bad (2012)
- Why Python Sucks. Index
- eXtreme Programing and Agile Scam (2012)
- Why Software Sucks (2001)
- The Nature of the Unix Philosophy (2006)
- UNIX Philosophy, Fast Food the UNIX way. 1983
- Node.js Creator Ryan Dahl on Software Complexity. 2011