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The Difference Between Programming and Software Development?

Why learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse programmer: So, learning Python and Haskell has demoralised me and encouraged me to write code that is bizarre and difficult to understand, and,...

By , 3rd October 2006 In:

Rethinking Persistence

People are starting to catch on to two very powerful ideas - that functional languages are ideal for building persistent storage repositories, and that a huge subset of web applications don't need...

By , 22nd September 2006 In:

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