Epochalypse: When computers travel back in time | hertig.blog

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types A data type in a programming language specifies what the underlying bytes actually represent, and they do a lot of the heavy lifting so that developers don't have to constan
There is a computer bug waiting to jump at us in about 14 years. Watch out for it, or you'll suddenly find yourself back in the year 1901.

Why did Prolog lose steam? | Mark J. Nelson

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, asks: of the major programming traditions—imperative, functional, object-oriented, and logic—why did the logic-programming one, exemplified by Prolog, more or less d
Its declarative lunch was partly eaten

Don’t Use ISO/IEC 14977 Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF)

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a language (such as a programming language or complex data structure) it’s often helpful to use some kind of Extended Backus-Naur form (EBNF). Often people do a Google searc
A description of why you should not use ISO

Modern Job Searching

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and "HTML" are NOT programming languages. "SQL" is a generic term. If one needs "PostgreSQL", "Oracle PL/SQL", or "Microsoft SQL Server" experience, spell it out! Just because the

http://beyondloom.com/blog/lila.html

http://beyondloom.com/blog/lila.html

the most ubiquitous programming languages in the world. Much like ed , the standard text editor, awk is a mandatory component of any POSIX operating system. On a fresh-out-of-the-

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