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'Design Patterns' Receives ACM SIGPLAN Award

Posted by timothy on from the good-idea-guys dept.

bth writes "ACM's Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) recently awarded the 2005 Programming Languages Achievement Award to Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (known as the 'Gang of Four') for their creation of 'Design Patterns' (the computer science book and the subfield at the intersection of programming languages and software engineering). The annual award recognizes an individual (or individuals) who has (have) made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of programming languages."

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  1. Re:Oh dear... by Surt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    CS snobs just get worked up easily since 9 out of 10 computer related jobs are for engineers rather than CS snobs. In my opinion, really, you should want to learn enough to know both, and to know that no matter how much you read, you'll know less than 1% of what there is to know about computers.

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    "Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
  2. HAHAHAHAHA by lordDogma · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The notion that Python and Ruby are successful because they are like Lisp is absurd and laughable. The reason people are productive with them is because they are very high level languages that have easy, concise syntax, useful built-in data structures, and good supporting libraries and bindings. Gee, go figure.

    I LOVE python. But I think Lisp is one of the shittiest, most annoying languages on the market today. When I code in Python, I feel NOTHING like when I code in Lisp. Lisp needs to just die and blowtards like Paul Graham need to stop peddling their tired zealotry to people who know better.