In Praise of APL (1977)(jsoftware.com)

84 points by tosh 9 months ago | 52 comments

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.

AP5 - Declarative Programming Library For Common Lisp (1995)(oceanpark.com)

49 points by contrapunctus 2 years ago | 2 comments

The Humble Programmer (1972)(cs.utexas.edu)

104 points by squircle 1 year ago | 28 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.