I found this quote in Stackoverflow Podcast #68 quite funny in its extreme dislike of parallel programming in C…
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StackOverflow interviews CouchDB
Last year, FLOSS Weekly interviewed Jan Lehnard of the CouchDB project. I put up a blog post on this, noting that it was interesting with a scalable parallel program written in Erlang, a true concurrent language. The interview was interesting, but not very deeply technical. Now, almost a year later, the StackOverflow podcast, number 59, interviewed the founder of the project, Damien Katz. This interview goes a bit more into the technical details and what CouchDB is good for and what not, as well as some details on the use and performance of Erlang.
The Tyranny of Syntax on Stackoverflow
The 44th episode of the Stackoverflow podcast contains an interesting discussion on what I have liked to call “the tyranny of syntax”.They note that for some reason people are scared of anything that does not look like C, but still lament some of the less good design patterns in C, such as the fact that closing braces have no annotations as to what is being closed. They also talk about the use of “little languages”, and an old favorite song of mine.
Off-topic: Computer Nostalgia at Stackoverflow
Strongly recommended thread at stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/102714/what-was-your-first-home-computer is about your first home computer. Some good product shots, and also some really funny things inserted.
Stackoverflow.com — Worth a Visit!
I have recently discovered stackoverflow.com and I must say it is something I very much recommend. The idea is simple, and the details rich and interesting.