Programming Languages

1984 This is the chilling story about a dystopian world and how it affects the people who live in this world. Is the most famous novel that talks about on how the government can control its people and deprive its population of any thought. Now a curious thing about the way they try to control people is by limiting the language they speak. By just having a population that can only talk in the most basic of English they would be able to destroy thought in a way. People won't be able to create new ideas because their language is limited to the most basic functions. Even the idea of communication can also disappear because although we are exchanging words between us, these won't have any substance to our feelings or thoughts. It will be just a language of agreement and disagreement and nothing else. Now, this sounds scary and it is just a novel but the point of these is that we must know the importance of education for our society. We usually undermine studies and language overa...

The Root of LISP This talks about the first papers talking about LISP  from John McCarthy now we see the beginning of LISP. The curious thing about this as with everything related to mathematics is that a lot of things related to Lisp were a discovery instead of a creation. Now another important aspect from reading is how the author divides languages into two paradigms which is C and Lisp. This meaning between the classical way of programming and functional programming. Yet something certainly true where we find out that more and more languages will decide to integrate both ways of programming. Functional programming is extremely effective in some cases and classical programming beats functional programming in others. That is why programmers have to get used to both ways of programming and be able to distinguish in which case is the best solution for a problem. That is why Clojure, Scala and other languages have become such a big thing at the moment. Encouraging people to learn f...