George Orwell: Politics and the English Language(orwell.ru)

96 points by night-rider 2 years ago | 40 comments

On the foolishness of “natural language programming” (1978)(cs.utexas.edu)

93 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 42 comments

Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming"(cs.utexas.edu)

390 points by nimbleplum40 1 year ago | 236 comments

Transcription of Edsger Dijkstra's manuscript EWD 667 arguing that programming in natural language is foolish and that formal symbolism is essential.

Why I love OCaml (2023)(mccd.space)

379 points by art-w 11 months ago | 270 comments

Personal blog post by Marc Coquand explaining why he loves OCaml, comparing it with Haskell and other languages he has used.

The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition(awk.dev)

508 points by 0x54MUR41 3 years ago | 143 comments

Placeholder site for the second edition of The AWK Programming Language book, with links to Awk source, implementations, and historical documents.

Second Thoughts on James Burnham (1946)(orwell.ru)

25 points by allthebest 3 years ago | 5 comments