Simon Willison’s Weblog

Understanding Engineers: Feasibility. Charles Miller provides smart definitions of what programmers mean when they say “impossible”, “trivial”, “unfeasible”, “non-trivial”, “hard” and “very hard”.

# 17th July 2007, 10:24 am / trivial, nontrivial, language, programmers, charles-miller, programming, hard, veryhard, unfeasible

Introduction to Abject-Oriented Programming. The best part is the comments, where several people completely fail to get the joke.

# 8th July 2007, 6:24 am / abject, programming, funny, wtf

A General Theory of Programming Language Relativity. Functional languages have clearer levels of indirection.

# 12th December 2006, 8:56 am / functional, programming

Ned Batchelder: Interfaces. Ned on interfaces.

# 10th November 2004, 1:03 am / oop, programming, ned-batchelder