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Indiana programmer and juggler.

Language nut, currently focused on Racket.

Prefer Emacs.


May
20
comment What makes OOP “good”?
Make that ignorance, flamebait and baseless assertions. A large server, you say? Like one running Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL?
May
20
comment What makes OOP “good”?
"only feasible to be build in an object-oriented approach" -1 for ignorance and flamebait.
Mar
17
comment Design a program and methods of doing so
Appropriately titled: How To Design Programs, 2e. I've started working through this so I can confidently recommend it to new programmers, and found that it attacks a lot of my weaknesses as a long-time programmer.
Feb
23
revised Is LISP still useful in today's world? Which version is most used?
Some updates, harder information and better coverage in response to recent attention.
Feb
21
awarded  Mortarboard
Feb
21
awarded  Good Answer
Feb
19
awarded  Caucus
Dec
28
asked Explanation of computer systems to a completely new programmer
Dec
21
answered Emacs vs. vim — what is the difference?
Dec
21
comment Emacs vs. vim — what is the difference?
It's hard for anyone to answer this, because so few people take one seriously and then switch and take the other seriously. Thus hardly anyone has good feature-level knowledge of each.
Nov
5
awarded  Necromancer
Oct
26
awarded  Yearling
Sep
22
comment Are regular expressions a programming language?
Har Har Har. (+1.)
Sep
7
awarded  Nice Answer
Apr
22
comment Is LISP still useful in today's world? Which version is most used?
@Bikal I wish the OpenGL support wasn't so dated, but then direct mode is not the biggest fault of my Racket code...
Apr
19
comment Why is Lisp useful?
Misread that as random J hacker, which made me really confused.
Apr
5
awarded  Guru
Dec
30
awarded  Popular Question
Nov
3
awarded  Good Answer
Oct
26
awarded  Nice Answer