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Postmodern Computer Science
gnat writes "Two New Zealand computer scientists have a paper accepted for OOPSLA called Notes on Postmodern Programming, which identifies shortcomings in traditional views of computer science. With a section on the difference between "The Matrix" and the net, a bulleted list of new approaches called "We're All Devo", and a section called "Messy is Good" consisting of nothing but a scan of a hand-drawn diagram, this is not your father's computer science paper. It's thought-provoking stuff, though. And you know they did their homework--they cite Larry Wall's Postmodern Perl talk."
This isn't quite revolutionary -- this is just a call for more "steps forward" to let newbie, undertrained, and/or fake H1B programmers code at the expense of resource usage due to not only the language itself, but bad programming practices that rely on the "optimizer" to make it run halfway decent?
What Andy giveth, Bill taketh... along with all the computer science "experts" who support them.
I still code in nothing but raw ASM, with C for a few things -- C++ is way too bloated for me, and don't even get me started on Java...
Devo sucks!
Just in case the trolls manage to Slashdot the Goatse, here's a Google Cache of it...
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Who's we, you got a turd in your pocket?
Never fight naked, unless you're in prison...
It has been shown you can shit on a plate and call it art. I now appears you can do the same and call it science. But in both cases a turd is still a turd.