On Apr 3, 1:53 am, Xah Lee wrote:
> 〈The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles
> Away〉
> Google Tech Talk, (2012-02-14) Presented by Ron Garret.
> @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gZK0tW8EhQ
RG mentions giving a more technical version to a Lisp User Group. Any
chance that
On Apr 2, 5:48Â pm, "Pascal J. Bourguignon"
> This is a narrow-minded definition of programming.
Well, that's the point.
If we make a list and include things like:
computer science
software engineering
computer engineering
discrete math
logic
formal methods
web development
computer graphics
infor
Programming is neither an art nor a science, but a trade.
It's not an art in the sense of painting, music, dance, poetry, etc.,
because the objective isn't to make a beautiful something, but to give
instructions to a machine to accomplish some useful task.
It's not a science in the sense of eithe
On Jul 31, 2:38 pm, gavino wrote:
> facebook is php
>
> myspace is microsoft
>
> aol was tcl and aolserver c embedding tcl interp
>
> priceline is lisp
>
> reddit is python was lisp orig
>
> amazon was perl
>
> livejournal was perl
Most of these are tech companies. Tech companies are very importa
On Jul 12, 7:54 am, Xah Lee wrote:
> maybe this will be of interest.
>
> 〈What Programing Language Are the Largest Website Written
> In?〉http://xahlee.org/comp/website_lang_popularity.html
About five years ago, I did some pretty extensive research, and
concluded that the biggest sites were writt
On Sep 26, 12:05 am, Xah Lee wrote:
> here's a interesting toy list processing problem.
>
> I have a list of lists, where each sublist is labelled by
> a number. I need to collect together the contents of all sublists
> sharing
> the same label. So if I have the list
>
> ((0 a b) (1 c d) (2 e f) (
On Mar 4, 11:51 am, Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente
wrote:
> No, relations are data.
This depends on your definition of 'data.' I would say that
relationships is information gleaned from the data.
> "Data is data" says nothing. Data is
> information.
To me, data and information are not the same thing
On Mar 3, 4:55 pm, toby wrote:
> > where you have to store data and
>
> "relational data"
Data is neither relational nor unrelational. Data is data.
Relationships are an artifact, something we impose on the data.
Relations are for human convenience, not something inherent in the
data itself.
>
On Mar 3, 12:36 pm, Xah Lee wrote:
> recently i wrote a blog article on The NoSQL Movement
> athttp://xahlee.org/comp/nosql.html
>
> i'd like to post it somewhere public to solicit opinions, but in the
> 20 min or so, i couldn't find a proper newsgroup, nor private list
> that my somewhat anti-NoS
