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Programming Language Peculiarities: JavaScript WAT!

Last week I wrote about some of the strange statements that are considered syntactically correct in Ruby. This week I am going to write about function scoping peculiarities with JavaScript. Firstly there are a number of ways you can define functions in JavaScript

How Is Learning a Human Language Like Learning a Computer Language

As programmers we get used to moving from one programming language to another, among language families this is relatively simple. When I refer to programming language families, for the purpose of this article I mean high level or low level languages.

Manners

I saw the poster in this post in a pub the other day so I took a photo. Wonderful!

IT Extremists

Working in IT I have met a number of what I would call “IT Extremists”. There are different factions of these people but they are all characterized by a common trait, they don’t see reason and they all take things way too far.

Usually

Why oh why do people insist on using the phrase ‘often times”?

Ostering?

The name derives from two words, one in Italian “Osteria” and one in English “Running”.

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