Louis Brandy pauses before answering, needing some extra time to choose his words. “I’m going to get in so much trouble,” he says. The question, you see, touches on an eternally controversial topic: ...

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The 10th annual International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) came to a close on September 28. Run by the Association for Computing Machinery's SIGPLAN group, ICFP is the premiere ...

When you used punch cards or tape to write a computer program, brief variable names were the norm. Your compiler or assembler probably only allowed six letters, anyway. But times change, and people ...