PLT Žižek

What are asynchronous IO and eventual consistency if not an impoverishing and barbarian austerity package for programming?

it is not difficult to come into contact with Kierkegaard's Void - just try to write a GUI in JavaScript

The move from procedural to callback style corresponds to the fall of hierarchical institutions and the rise of anything-goes libertarianism

TDD is a heathen ideology, the denial of any God-given grand design, and the trust in a warm fuzzy cosmic cycle of development & testing.

Is there a better time than an event like #strangeloop to realize that PLT is but a giant void, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing?

The biggest horror of PL dev: never being able to see the PL's manual and "official" semantics as something other than a Potemkin village.

Like actors and Rorschach tests, successful programming languages allow us to project whatever we desire onto them.

To FPers, OOers are the subjects supposed to believe. In the usual perverse twist, this causes FPers believe more deeply in OO than OOers do

The real reason for the hate of popular languages like Java is not their features, but rather developers' economic dependence on them.

I'm at a Chick-Fil-A, coding some JS.

the platitude that male sexism is keeping women from entering CS only reinforces the notion that the field belongs to men by default

we must resist the Super-ego's imperative of "Enjoy!" - who can really enjoy programming in JavaScript?

what if our desire for more women in CS is just a desperate attempt to tell ourselves that it isn't dry and boring?

the FP/OO debate makes people feel hopeless and depressed. the future of PLT will be an unending process of therapy

The open problem for Smalltalk is to cross over from the Imaginary to the Real.

We have to recognize #Ruby's syntax -- requiring roughly 10KLOC C parser code -- as one of the truly catastrophic events of the last century

where is the smooth, nomadic approach to PLT? most likely in the "maritime", extraterritorial web browser - the Netscape Navigator

do all the reimaginings of Java and C++ (Rust, Dart, Kotlin, ...) signify a win of the striated, bureaucratic state apparatus?

of course, the *really* democratic way to execute a program is to select its statements by lottery