Jul 20, 2007
Eric Lippert: The august Waldemar Horwat (lead Javascript developer at AOL-Time-Warner-Netscape) once told me that he considered Javascript to be just another syntax for Common Lisp.
water: Mozilla’s CVS tree still contains the original implementation of Javascript… written in Common Lisp.
via. also.
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Jul 20, 2007
“In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they’ll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.
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Jul 20, 2007
“One of the downsides of many Lisps is that they put too much emphasis on application rather than composition. For example,
(mapcar (lambda (x) (f (g x))) list) is more awkward than
(mapcar (compose f g) list) or
[ g f ] map
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Jul 20, 2007
“Valuation is temporary, control is forever.
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Jul 20, 2007
“Investors who want to increase their percent ownership try to drive down the next round’s valuation.
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Jul 20, 2007
“To provide effective auditory renderings of information, one needs to start from the actual information being presented, rather than a visual presentation of that information.
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Jul 20, 2007
“Both Apple and Microsoft are moving towards the Smalltalk model, with the Cocoa development environment on the Mac, and .Net/WPF on Windows.
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Jul 19, 2007
“Barriers to exit are barriers to entry too.
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Jul 19, 2007
“Firefox has made huge inroads in Europe over the past year, to the point where Internet Explorer is in danger of losing its market share lead in some countries.
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Jul 19, 2007
“Allowing users to maximize any window to a monitor has its problems. But forcing users to deal with more windows by preventing maximization [like Apple] is not good user interface design.
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