"Worse is Better" is what distinguishes unix and C on the one hand from lisp and TeX on the other, but what distinguishes (unix, C, lisp, TeX) from everything else that's fallen by the wayside in the last few decades? Does Java participate in it? It certainly seems awfully hard to kill by now, but somehow we got to this historical point --- where the mass of mindshare and library inertia behind Java seems hard to quickly give up --- from the historical point where Java was just some fiddly little research language that nobody used.
"Worse is Better" is what distinguishes unix and C on the one hand from lisp and TeX on the other, but what distinguishes (unix, C, lisp, TeX) from everything else that's fallen by the wayside in the last few decades? Does Java participate in it? It certainly seems awfully hard to kill by now, but somehow we got to this historical point --- where the mass of mindshare and library inertia behind Java seems hard to quickly give up --- from the historical point where Java was just some fiddly little research language that nobody used.
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A paper on describing circuits in an agda DSL: http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~swier004/publications/2015-types-draft.pdf
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Going more carefully now through this little tutorial on fpga programming with the iCEstick. It's in spanish, which makes it slightly more…
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Some further progress cleaning up the https://xkcd.com/1360/ -esque augean stables that is my hard drive. Tomato chicken I made a couple days ago…
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A paper on describing circuits in an agda DSL: http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~swier004/publications/2015-types-draft.pdf
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Going more carefully now through this little tutorial on fpga programming with the iCEstick. It's in spanish, which makes it slightly more…
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Some further progress cleaning up the https://xkcd.com/1360/ -esque augean stables that is my hard drive. Tomato chicken I made a couple days ago…