Archive for April, 2007

Code Read 9 - John Backus and Functional Programming

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

The 1977 Turing Award went to John Backus, and in his Turing Lecture, “Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?”, he made a vigorous case against traditional “von Neumann” programming (VNP), and for functional programming (FP). Unfortunately, the vigorous rhetorical style of this paper has infused the discussion of FP, resulting in [...]

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Code Read 8 - Eric S Raymond’s Cathedral and Bazaar

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

The ever evolving “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” by Eric S Raymond (aka CatB) has become something of a lengthy read. Scott Rosenberg’s Code Read 8 dives on in, and rightly describes it as a “classic essay” and says it “has proved its importance” in the literature of software development. I first read [...]

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