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Language as the “Ultimate Weapon” in Nineteen Eighty-Four

T he key factor that separates us from animals, we are symbolic animals, every entity of this space has its name by our own perception, we understand our surrounding by our own collective interpretation and definition from that same interpretation. Everything has a defined name that encapsulates the whole idea, limiting that entity presence in the created context. Language has given us the ability to express and communicate to other human beings, the ambiguous interpretations of the universe from the first civilizations were the main structure for the evolution of our cosmovisio n, with that language has been the syntax of our perception. The definition of objects and things we manage to comprehend, has a limitation, the same name and definition of that specific object limits its space, leaving that object being unnoticed and with less importance. If we remove language, how the interpretations of our existence and the universe could be? If we thing about languag e, we can see that is ...
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All I Really Need to Know about Pair Programming I Learned In Kindergarten

Pair programming has such potential that encourages to make two programmers work together in a simple task, roles are defined in this matter, one controlling the computer while the other is the observer, each one has to establish a communication in order to solve the presented problem. “Two minds think better than one”, and it is proven that pair programming gives better software results and is a technique that if it is used by the rules of kindergarten , w h ere the important thing is how every programmer is involved in the problem solution and the communication they have one and another. This simple task that is getting two people to work together in order to accomplish a certain task, i t s amazing, take for example music, two artists jamming together to perform a greater song, the role they are playing may differ from pair programming, but each musician has their own role in the performance. Some experiences in life presented in different environments could become a perfect metaph...

The Secret History of Women in Coding

Programming existed more that it could be ever imaged, that historical procedure, the combination of metal such as hardware and digits such as software, merged into one environment, at first that segmentation between hardware and software was notorious, by women being more likely to be programmers than men, but now a days this premise changes almost completely. There is often that question that pops out, why the differentiation, speaking of the treatment women had to endure through the whole human existence. The article titled The Secret History of Women in Coding mentions that out, there still exists sexism and discrimination, in this case in the environment of computer science. It had been very difficult to acknowledge the brilliant female minds that made extraordinary creations and gave birth to a whole new world of possibilities. Programming is label free, “the computer doesn’t even care if the programmer is female or black...” what ever race or ideology the programmer has. As a ...

The Roots of Lisp

T hinking about a perfect structure for a perfect environment, each symbol representing many possibilities, each key has it’s own purpose and behavior in that context. The only limitations is the scope of the created structures. Lisp had defined a style in programming, with new possibilities for problem solving that takes the programmer out of the box, and brings a new point of view. But finally it is only an interpretation, a translation between human and machine, we may give sense to our perception by the usage of language and writing, this perception can be very complex or very simple, it can always depend on the observer and the given context… for example hardware, only understands voltage, the abstraction of a programming language goes into the process of becoming machine language, which are kind of voltage instructions for the millions of transistors inside a CPU, programming language has been limited by this context, the limitations are hardware dependent. New approaches with...

Rich Hickey on Clojure

It is a very good resource to create podcast in the internet radio, about programming, in the podcast of Rick Hickey, talks about the creation of Clojure, and its key elements that conforms the whole language, the uniqueness of the programming language is how the code is presented to the compiler, and play along the data structures of languages. The data literals are using all along, and the strong keyboard is the library to manipulate the AST. Also the creation of macros it uses native data structures and with help of the API of Clojure, such as the Sequence API, it helps the programmer to achieve faster solutions to certain problems. Its based on LISP, and it didn’t has been catches as a mainstream languages which was used more likely for scientific purposes and the creation of Clojure is an addition to the power of LISP but with more resources in order to increase their capability. The combination with sub-programms in Clojure helps the main feature of Clojure, and the importance o...

Dick Gabriel on Lisp

It is quite interesting how the path one take may be altered in a certain way of creation, it is not know that is going to happen in the future, or even what things we would do. Some key events on life brings us where we are right know, you could be a programmer but maybe in some future you will work with plants. Technology is present in all branches, in everything where ingenious and creation is. Working with other branch that is new to your context may improve some things around you, the fact of having more tools at your range may give some performance in what you are doing, in the case of Dick Gabriel, he talks on how technology had helped him. And the way LISP works is understandable if we look at the abstraction of its commitment. With LISP’s creation, programmers had improved in certain areas of computer science, such as AI. With this creation had come an important revolution that had change certain paradigms that programmers lived in. Languages… like LISP has the struc...

The Promises of Functional Programming

There is a bunch of taste when we talk about programming languages, some of them are meant for some problem solving and some of them are not, depends on the structure of the language and how this feature gives us an approach to resolve the problem. In the article, it mentions about functional programming, with gives certain features to make the solution performance even better, such as parallel programming. Another feature that is interesting is the data types that exists in certain programming languages, it depends in how the data is stored. Through evolution (in a technology way) improvements will be made, some traditional point of view of solving problems will be obsolete, it the matter of viewing the different approaches to solve certain problems. Some structure of thinking defined the abstraction on how we see the problem solved, but with functional programming these paradigms could be overturned. Functional programming has revolutionize the entire world, with new solutions to...