Is programming more like an engineering or it is more like an art?
I just came across a recent interview of Richard Gabriel for java.sun.com where he precisely pushes against considering programming as a sole engineering activity, underlines the role of creativeness and diversity and makes parallels between …
What matters more in advancing a software project, a sound technology or a sound team? The team, obviously. But how much?
In his comments to the MMM edition after 20 years, F. Brooks writes:
Some readers have found it curious that MMM devotes most of the essays to …
I consider Python to be quite a Lisp-y language, clean and nice for rapid development, with lots of libraries. One message on comp.lang.python said "I never understood why LISP was a good idea until I started playing with python".
A nice comparison of Python and Lisp …