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Barry Brown
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Former developer and Unix system administrator. Now a professor of computer science at Sierra College.

Languages I love: Perl

Languages I like: Scheme, ColdFusion, Tcl, Java

Languages I live with, begrudgingly: Python, PHP

Languages I'm learning: Miranda, Haskell, Standard ML, Scheme

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99 Why use an interface when the class can directly implement the functions? Apr 21 '12
55 Why the scorn for COBOL? [closed] Oct 7 '11
46 How do I create my own programming language and a compiler for it Jun 16 '11
38 Why is Scheme my first language in university? Oct 20 '11
19 What are some famous one-liner or two-liner programs and equations? Nov 6 '10
18 Has whitespace in identifiers ever been idiomatic? Apr 24 '12
15 Biggest mistake you've ever made Oct 25 '10
14 Why are there so many competing filesystem designs? Oct 10 '11
12 What is the (craziest, stupidest, silliest) thing a client/boss asked you to do? Nov 15 '10
10 Infix vs Prefix Notation - Which do you prefer? Dec 14 '10
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