extensive interview with John Backus at the end of his life http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2013/05/102657970-05-01-acc.pdf …
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it was a different world, really, but we are now once again back to billing by compute time (in cloud computing platforms, anyway)pic.twitter.com/JT6vG76Yc3
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functional style really is remarkably expressive and I can imagine how valuable the compactness of notation would feel after spending a decade on FORTRANpic.twitter.com/KQ0bcLhyFt
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fascinating comment here. easy to describe the transformations of data. hard to get a usable system that interacts with, uh, time and space out of it.pic.twitter.com/BUL4BlOjj1
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Hoffman's problem child makes a surprise appearance!pic.twitter.com/iek6Q7jloc
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"the cesspool of complexity" is where I spend my days as a webshit engineer, the more things change the more they stay the samepic.twitter.com/0NzSzxgusA
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