warmup.cpp: [code] Late last December, I woke up and it was freezing in my apartment. I checked the thermostat, and it was already less than 60 degrees! I turned it from hot to cold to hot. And again. I turned it all the way up. The furnace never clicked on. COME ON! I checked, and [...]
Syntax Smells “Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” ~Abelson and Sussman, SICP If 8 years of programming has taught me anything, it’s that programmers need to give themselves every advantage imaginable. I’m not disparaging other programmers. I say this as someone who has been humbled on [...]
I am a mild-mannered C#/C++ programmer by day, and I have been learning Lisp in my spare time. Comparatively speaking, I do not spend much time programming for personal projects (only an hour or two a day), but I noticed something awesome recently: Lisp is influencing the way I write C++ in a few different [...]
