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| bio | website | cs.tufts.edu/~nr |
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| location | Malden, MA | |
| age | 51 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 5 months |
| seen | Feb 18 at 16:51 | |
| stats | profile views | 238 |
Happy hacker in C, Icon, Haskell, Lua, ML, Modula-3, Scheme, and others. Favorite language: whatever I'm using at the moment.
Good ways to get in contact include Skype chat to norman-ramsey or (less reliable) AIM to norman62ramsey
Every time I see a question about "strong" or "weak" typing, I kill a kitten.
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Feb 9 |
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Jan 30 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Dec 21 |
answered | Is the ternary operator evil? |
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Dec 21 |
awarded | Autobiographer |
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May 17 |
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I'm graduating with a Computer Science degree but I don't feel like I know how to program @Alex, never go through HR. If you're lucky, someone you know knows someone where you want to work. |
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May 15 |
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I'm graduating with a Computer Science degree but I don't feel like I know how to program @Alex: There sure are a lot of crappy jobs out there. I'm lucky in that most of the students I teach get to interview for good ones (although they don't always get offers). |
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May 13 |
answered | I'm graduating with a Computer Science degree but I don't feel like I know how to program |
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Aug 26 |
answered | Making money with Open Source as a developer? |
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Aug 6 |
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Why isn't OCaml more popular? @Chris: IMO this is one reason that Perl is losing mindshare. |
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Apr 2 |
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Reaching Intermediate Programming Status I disagree---the best programmers are like the best writers: they literally cannot stop themselves from doing what they do best. |
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Jan 13 |
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Why isn't OCaml more popular? The ML language does indeed go back quite far, but I don't think there was a native-code compiler before Luca Cardelli's compiler circa 1984. SML also dates from 1984 with the addition of Dave MacQueen's modules proposal. |
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Jan 11 |
answered | Why isn't OCaml more popular? |
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Jan 8 |
answered | How do you motivate peers to become better developers? |
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Jan 5 |
answered | Should integer divide by zero halt execution? |
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Dec 26 |
answered | Why are zero-based arrays the norm? |
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Dec 5 |
answered | Reaching Intermediate Programming Status |
