Barry Brown

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Former developer and Unix system administrator. Now a professor of computer science at Sierra College.

Languages I love: Perl

Languages I like: Scheme, ColdFusion, Tcl, Java

Languages I live with, begrudgingly: Python, PHP

Languages I'm learning: Miranda, Haskell, Standard ML, Scheme

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35	How do I create my own programming language and a compiler for it
31	Why is my first language in University Scheme?
19	What are some famous one-liner or two-liner programs and equations?
14	Why are there so many competing filesystem designs?
13	Biggest mistake you've ever made

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+30	Why use an interface when the class can directly implement the functions?
+10	What are some common examples of a Parallelizable problem?
+10	How were some language communities (eg, Ruby and Python) able to prevent fragmentation while others (eg, Lisp or ML) were not?
+10	Cheap programmable, portable device

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4 Questions

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53	What superstitions do programmers have? [closed]
41	Why the scorn for COBOL?
17	What is Java used for these days? [closed]
6	Does not documenting code result in job security? [duplicate]

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17 implicit-parallelism × 2	14 standards
17 parallelism × 2	14 standardization
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