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I've been programming since I was 15. I started with APL at the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics in 1974. At Carnegie-Mellon I learned FORTRAN, and ALGOL/W, and Pascal, did a lot of TOPS-20 assembly programming hacking the MM mail reader, a fair bit of TECO programming customizing the first versions of Emacs, and a bit of INTERLISP and SAIL. After graduating, I have worked in BLISS-36, a tiny bit of Cobol, a decade of C, lots of Perl and EMACS-LISP, C++, Ada, Tcl, C#, Java, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and lately some Groovy.

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1369 Where did the notion of “one return only” come from? Nov 9 '11
142 Dealing with management that does not see value in improvements that are not immediately visible to the user Feb 1 '12
96 Thoughts on Development using Virtual Machines Aug 25 '11
86 How do I handle disagreement in a code review regarding an unlikely edge case? Feb 5 '17
71 Why is naming a table's Primary Key column “Id” considered bad practice? Oct 17 '11
70 My boss decided to add a “person to blame” field to every bug report. How can I convince him that it's a bad idea? Jun 28 '12
66 Is a senior programmers advice about always using books a good idea? Dec 5 '13
55 Why aren't there other programming languages that compile to Python bytecode? May 17 '12
46 Is it considered a bad practice to add logic in a property setter? Jul 13 '13
44 How do you tackle really bizarre errors that keep you puzzled for more than 10 hours? Sep 3 '11
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