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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ # Peniblec's Memory Leaks -## still reachable: 3492 words in 5 pages +## still reachable: 3619 words in 6 pages Hi! I am a software engineer interested in [a bunch of things]. diff --git a/technical/blog-roll.md b/technical/blog-roll.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6dd8849 --- /dev/null +++ b/technical/blog-roll.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +This is a list of blog-ish websites where I found insightful stuff +that I would like not to forget. + +# LispCast + +Eric Normand's musings on programming paradigms and their application, +with a soft spot for functional programming. + +[Programming Paradigms and the Procedural Paradox] (2017) +: A discussion on our tendency to conflate *paradigms* with their + *features*; for example, when trying to answer "can this language + express that paradigm?", we often reduce the question to "does + this language possess those features?". + + Normand wonders whether we do this because the procedural + paradigm's metaphor (a series of steps that each may contain any + number of sub-tasks) maps so well to its features (sequential + statements, subroutines) that it trained us to mix those up. + +[Programming Paradigms and the Procedural Paradox]: https://lispcast.com/procedural-paradox/ |