Future of Coding

A romp through the field of computer programming, grapling with our history and wondering what shoul

Episodes

Total: 75

In the academic field of programming language research, there are a few prestigious conferences that

"Is the whole universe a computer?", ask Jack Copeland, Mark Sprevak, and Oron Shagrir in chapter 41

Alexander Repenning created AgentSheets, an environment to help kids develop computational thinking

If you're anything like Ivan (oof, sorry), you've heard of Pygmalion but never caught more than the

Inventing on PrincipleStop Drawing Dead FishThe Future of Programming Yes, all three of them in one

Dave Ackley's paper Beyond Efficiency is three pages long. With just these three pages, he mounts a

In the spirit of clearly communicating what you're signing up for, this podcast episode is nearly th

The subject of this episode's paper — Propositions as Types by Philip Wadler — is one of those grand

Go To Statement Considered Harmful is a solid classic entry in the X Considered Harmful metafiction

This community is a big tent. We welcome folks from all backgrounds, and all levels of experience wi

The execution of code, by its very nature, creates the conditions of a "strong legalism" in which yo

This is a normal episode of a podcast called Future of Coding. We talk about INTERCAL, a real tool f

Out of the Tar Pit is in the grand pantheon of great papers, beloved the world over, with just so mu

Jimmy and I have each read this paper a handful of times, and each time our impressions have flip-fl

This is Jimmy’s favourite paper! Here’s a copy someone posted on HitBug. Is it as good as the origin

Magic Ink by Bret Victor

2022/12/8

Before the time-travelling talks, the programmable rooms, the ladders and rocket launchers, we had t

Following our previous episode on Richard P. Gabriel's Incommensurability paper, we're back for roun

Today we're discussing the so-called "incommensurability" paper: The Structure of a Programming Lang

There once was a podcast episode. It was about a very special kind of book: the Dynabook. The podcas

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