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Eric Wilson
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14 Questions

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287 votes
39 answers
73k views

Why don't all companies buy developers the best hardware?

89 votes
6 answers
14k views

Why was Python's popularity so sudden? [closed]

54 votes
3 answers
12k views

What is the origin and meaning of the phrase “Lambda the ultimate?”

51 votes
14 answers
7k views

Why the current enthusiasm for Functional Programming? [closed]

47 votes
9 answers
8k views

Is there a viable alternative to the agile development methodology?

33 votes
7 answers
5k views

Is Haskell's type system an obstacle to understanding functional programming? [closed]

22 votes
5 answers
1k views

Are there any notable examples of business disasters directly attrutible to open-source software? [closed]

18 votes
9 answers
3k views

What is the path to JavaScript mastery? [closed]

15 votes
9 answers
1k views

What is the best objective way to measure language popularity trends? (What's better than TIOBE?) [closed]

14 votes
9 answers
2k views

Is Ubuntu workable as a laptop for an IT consultant?

12 votes
5 answers
2k views

How is the JVM and Java's WORA different from other high level languages?

10 votes
4 answers
4k views

Why doesn't the .NET world have anything like rails/grails/django/roo? [closed]

10 votes
10 answers
9k views

Do Python programmers find the whitespace issue inconvenient? [closed]

5 votes
9 answers
672 views

Is there any evidence that one of the current alternate JVM languages might catch on? [closed]

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