I’ve resisted the retrocomputing rabbit hole thus far, which in very grateful for, but I did just stumbled on some of Bjarne Däcker’s manuals for the 1970s hardware that ran EriPascal (iiuc), a predecessor to Erlang. Imagine a prequel to Erlang The Movie… pic.twitter.com/z2ieS9mfIK
— Luke Gorrie (@lukego) October 11, 2020
“I must program as inefficiently as possible. I must program as inefficiently as possible.” Today I’m chanting Joe Armstrong’s famous mantra for writing code to solve a problem that you don’t understand yet. The instinct to optimize is extremely counter-productive at these times.
— Luke Gorrie (@lukego) July 2, 2020
Considering the merits of debugging a Nvidia/Xorg problem verses taking a long term view by spending that time looking for a vacancy in a monastery or Amish community.
— Luke Gorrie (@lukego) November 27, 2019
I’d like to file a feature request on the English language. For the sake of source code aesthetics one of the word pairs transmit/receive, send/receive, or read/write should be updated such that each word has the same number of letters. Prio 4.
— Luke Gorrie (@lukego) July 12, 2019