Paul Graham talks about what programming languages will look like in 100 years. An ambitious task, but he's up to the challenge; Graham is a 'real-world' programmer, and he's incredibly smart. As a bonus, it's really quite interesting. When some sheltered Computer Science PhD writes a paper on the future of computer programming languages it is usually painfully boring. I much prefer to read Graham's or Joel Spolsky's essays. (In fact Graham has a PhD from Harvard, but he doesn't write like it. I consider that a high compliment.)
Spolsky will add in management techniques and organizational-type points to his essays. Graham's will focus more on the theoretical.
One of Spolsky's employees at Fog Creek Software runs techinterview.org, which is now back from a 10 month hiatus.
Posted by complex at April 14, 2003 10:46 PM | TrackBack