international lisp conference.

one of the things to notice about programming is, it follows the manufacturing model. what if software takes a little bit of responsibility. software as collaborator never ending installation lost sourcecode self-sustaining, self-repairing code garbage collection is allowing you to write ugly code, noticing the failure and repairing. if a complicated systems needs to live for a long time, living becomes the ultimate goal. autopoetic software and robotics stigmatgy, pierre-paul grassé information hiding: in computer science the principle in information hiding is the hiding of design decision in a computer program that are most likely do change those protecting other parts of the computer program from change if the design decision is changed. softwaredevelopers are the most conservative people on the planet ... they just don't want to change anything, they talk about the salami slice problem. (richard gabriel,conscientious)

the lisp-site is also an example how postprocessing of a conference on the web makes sense: more ballast! story, where pp and text are combined to tell the story nicely with hindsight.

i have been warned, but i am going there. watching people who seem to like m or p words a lot: meta design, metaprogramming, metacase, ... pattern everywhere. well, will try to find the right scale, though

how many different programming paradigms are out there?

agile programming buddy p cowboy p - and a lot more play the c tune declarative p egotist p, but also egoless functional p - well, that's boring generative programming h i j k logical p meta n is there something like null?? at least a nullable-type o object, open, obscure, optimistic, obsolet? (hehe) pragmatic programming - ¿phobia? q rape and paste programming s t u v w xp programming zen programming, i guess can be called OhmProgramming, too.

there you find nearly all you can imagine, and here is the noun game. thanks brian for inspiration!

people were told after a three day course with von neumann (herzfeld) or a weekend skitrip - (i forgot who, it's one of the famous guys in hiltzik's book), or one week training "you could program a computer" (alan kay) - or you knew enough about computing to take the job.

"now with 1000 professors and more graduates" as charles herzfeld says, it's harder to have a nobel idea as it is harder to find a good programmer, as joel complains in his story about lazy kids.

online course for a test.

what happened to the idea training on the job nowadays?