Programming

I came across this interesting transcript of a talk given by Chris Granger. In it, he describes the journey of Eve, a programming language that was meant to democratise programming and make it easy for non-technical types to learn and develop their own systems. This isn’t an original idea - it’s been attempted many different times. And, just like those other systems, it ultimately failed in it’s goals. In my eyes, there are two reasons for that.

A recent post about finding the keyboard shortcut for debug mode in Animal Crossing (via Hacker News) had my nostalgia senses tingling. It reminded me strongly of my first job: porting Japanese mobile phone games to European handsets.

In my current job, I’ve been using Clojure as one of the main languages. Every time I go back to it, it makes my heart soar. Ok, I might be overexaggerating a little. But it is great.