Monthly Archives: October 2006

Borrowability

Posted on October 22, 2006 by Stuart

The first draft of Project Posner was written in Common Lisp. I thought it would be fun to see how Common Lisp fared as a language for doing heavy text processing with a web front end. It worked well, and … Continue reading →

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Premature Cleverization

Posted on October 5, 2006 by Stuart

“Premature optimization is the root of all evil,” say Hoare and Knuth. I have determined that I suffer from a slightly different but related malady: premature cleverization. At the start of a programming task, before I’ve written any real code, … Continue reading →

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