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Barry Brown
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Former developer and Unix system administrator. Now a professor of computer science at Sierra College.

Languages I love: Perl

Languages I like: Scheme, ColdFusion, Tcl, Java

Languages I live with, begrudgingly: Python, PHP

Languages I'm learning: Miranda, Haskell, Standard ML, Scheme

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Why use an interface when the class can directly implement the functions?
Apr 21, 2012
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Why the scorn for COBOL? [closed]
Oct 7, 2011
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How do I create my own programming language and a compiler for it
Jun 16, 2011
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Why is Scheme my first language in university?
Oct 20, 2011
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What are some famous one-liner or two-liner programs and equations?
Nov 6, 2010
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Has whitespace in identifiers ever been idiomatic?
Apr 24, 2012
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Biggest mistake you've ever made
Oct 25, 2010
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Why are there so many competing filesystem designs?
Oct 10, 2011
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What is the (craziest, stupidest, silliest) thing a client/boss asked you to do?
Nov 15, 2010
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Infix vs Prefix Notation - Which do you prefer?
Dec 14, 2010

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Why can't decimal numbers be represented exactly in binary?
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Default constructor vs. inline field initialization
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Not equal <> != operator on NULL
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How does the Back button in a web browser work?
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What type of DNS record is needed to make a subdomain?