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Programming for non-programmers

A thread over on the PLT mailing list that LtU-ers may find interesting.

The thread isn't very technical, and the title may be a bit misleading: It's more about programming skills than about programming by non-programmers.

I wonder how many people outside the PL community would agree with the statement that Programming is just another name for the lost art of thinking. Perhaps a better formulation would be Programming, done right, is just another name for the art of thinking.

And by done right I mean using the right languages, of course.

By Ehud Lamm at 2004-10-17 11:04 | General | 30 comments | other blogs | 12972 reads

Playing the Minesweeper with Constraints (MOZ 2004)

Peter linked to the MOZ 2004 papers earlier.

This presentation by Raphael Collet provides a nice example of constraint programming, a paradigm we don't discuss often enough.

By Ehud Lamm at 2004-10-17 12:41 | Logic/Declarative | 5 comments | other blogs | 6942 reads

Forum Topics broken?

the forum topics sidebar doesn't seem to be reflecting current posts.

By andrew cooke at 2004-10-17 21:06 | Site Discussion | 1 comment | other blogs | 7010 reads