Wandering Thoughts archives

2008-12-28:	An advantage of doing test driven development
2008-12-11:	Why you should always allow version 1 to be specified
2008-11-23:	My sign of a good graphical interface
2008-11-10:	Exploiting the Bourne shell to parse configuration files
2008-10-13:	The complexity of not lying to Makefiles
2008-10-12:	An irritating `awk` limitation: getting a range of fields
2008-09-26:	The aesthetics of syntactic sugar
2008-09-24:	How we lie to our Makefiles
2008-09-23:	Some thoughts on improving current thread-based programming
2008-08-20:	An illustration of why syntactic sugar matters
2008-08-07:	The pragmatics of language changes
2008-07-30:	What is guaranteed in languages in practice
2008-07-24:	One thing that I dislike about typical debuggers
2008-07-06:	A (D)VCS feature that I'd really like
2008-06-25:	More on standard interfaces
2008-06-11:	Tabs versus windows, or why I usually want windows
2008-05-30:	The fun of `awk`
2008-05-24:	Dear applications: WEP keys are not passwords
2008-05-09:	An advantage of interpreted languages
2008-05-06:	The Bourne shell is not a programming language
2008-05-04:	On standard interfaces
2008-04-22:	The irritation of single-context applications
2008-04-11:	The appeal of XML
2008-03-24:	The two sorts of (programmer) certification
2008-03-23:	Why software engineering certification may not work out the way people want
2008-03-16:	My problem with Lisp
2008-02-27:	Two sorts of languages
2008-02-21:	The irritation of single-instance applications
2008-02-03:	A note to would-be photo editing applications
2008-01-20:	Layering buffering on top of other buffering is usually a bad idea
2008-01-03:	Scrolling versus panning

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