programming

"Real programmers"

At the time the Symbolic Assembly Program (SAP) first appeared I would guess about 1% of the older programmers were interested in it—using SAP was “sissy stuff,” and a real programmer would not stoop to wasting machine capacity to do the assembly.

Richard Hamming The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
- programming
Gatekeeping is a sign of soon-to-be-obsolete ways of thinking. Anyone who claims real experts would never do something a certain way are sure to be left behind quickly.

Modern equivalent probably include those who say real web developers would never use tools like Wix or Webflow. If not these tools, then tools like them will surely change the industry as radically as symbolic programming changed early computation.
The Future of Programming

A Talk by Bret Victor
worrydream.com
APL386 Unicode

A Font by Adám Brudzewsky
abrudz.github.io

APL font based on Adrian Smith’s APL385 font with a fun, whimsical look, inspired by Comic Sans Serif.

APL (named after the book A Programming Language) is a programming language developed in the 1960s by Kenneth E. Iverson. Its central datatype is the multidimensional array. It uses a large range of special graphic symbols to represent most functions and operators, leading to very concise code. It has been an important influence on the development of concept modeling, spreadsheets, functional programming, and computer math packages. It has also inspired several other programming languages.
Are We Really Engineers?

An Essay by Hillel Wayne
www.hillelwayne.com
Are software engineers “real” engineers? Wayne talks to a number of crossovers – ex-engineers turned developers – to explore the hotly debated question.
Aias

A Profile by Nick Trombley
github.com
My Github profile. Aias is an alternate spelling of the Greek Ajax, which I first encountered in the Robert Fitzgerald translation of The Iliad.