In early March, I gave a presentation at the first (it its kind) Evans Data Corporation Developer Relations Programs Conference in San Jose. During the two day conference, several of the presenters mentioned statistics from their own research and from a recent Evans Data developer survey.
Do you fit the profile or are you outside the […]
I was driving over the hill to our Cupertino office this morning listening to the Morning Edition show on NPR radio. Seldom do I hear something about computer science or our industry. I was pleasantly surprised to hear a story about Donald Knuth and his series of books called “The Art of Computer Programming”. Knuth […]
Stan Kelly-Bootle, in his article in ACM Queue magazine, questions the use of the term "programming languages" to categorize the programming syntax we use to create applications. He says "many linguists consider programming languages to be the most egregious misnomer since the Big Bang (which I parochially date to 1949 when the Cambridge EDSAC I […]