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Read-Eval-Print-λove is an Internet zine focusing on the Lisp family of programming languages
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I thoroughly enjoyed this talk and thought it would be nice to share.
The bit that starts around 7:45 where he talks about the "clash of worldviews" between computer scientists and domain scientists is particularly great; I've been trying to articulate that basic idea for a year and failing.
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Soft typing: An approach to type checking for dynamically typed languages (1991)
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I don't mean to post this to trigger a religious war. I think it's an interesting discussion. I'm a big Python programmer, but I also love Go. I see both sides of the discussion and I think this article does present a useful take on it.
Abstract: "Many important security problems in JavaScript, such as
browser extension security, untrusted JavaScript librari
es and safe inte-
gration of mutually distrustful websites (mash-ups), may b
e effectively
addressed using an efficient implementation of information fl
ow control
(IFC)...