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Basic and the ROMs that changed the world (and then disappeared) (2022)
For all practical purposes, BASIC is seldom used and mostly forgotten today. But given my praise...
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Context: The Missing Feature of Programming Languages
Modern computer hardware is so capable that we can often simply ignore its limitations when writing...
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"I always saw myself as an engineer" – Part 1/3
1970, Prof. em. Niklaus Wirth developed the programming language Pascal and became world famous with it....
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How Programming Languages Got Their Names
Have you ever wondered how the likes of Python or Java got their names? Let’s take...
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Python types have an expectations problem
In the last ~10 or so years, many of the popular scripting languages gained optional static...
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Benchmarking Mojo: A Deep Dive into Performance and Practicality
This is part I of a series of articles on using Mojo in Advent of Code.Go...
