deniok: (ржунимагу)
2011-10-15 10:55 am
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ЖЖ

За что люблю ЖЖ, так это за тихую чистую радость, которую он дарит. Сегодня с утра пришла на почту нотификакия следующего содержания:



Hi [info]deni_ok, 

[info]deni_ok's birthday is coming up on October 17! 

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Yes, I can.
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deniok: (ржунимагу)
2009-05-08 10:51 pm
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Прекрасное

Я лежу под столом, читая "A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages"

1970 - Niklaus Wirth creates Pascal, a procedural language. Critics immediately denounce Pascal because it uses "x := x + y" syntax instead of the more familiar C-like "x = x + y". This criticism happens in spite of the fact that C has not yet been invented.

1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.

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1990 - A committee formed by Simon Peyton-Jones, Paul Hudak, Philip Wadler, Ashton Kutcher, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals creates Haskell, a pure, non-strict, functional language. Haskell gets some resistance due to the complexity of using monads to control side effects. Wadler tries to appease critics by explaining that "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"


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