Lenguajes de programación

  Welcome again to my blog! Thank you for reading me once again, and I'm sorry for my bad sentence creation that has been a common thing in these blogs, I'm really trying my best and I hope one day I can write full essays with ideas that can be understood easily.  Today is time to talk about the roots of one of the most consistent programming models of our time, LISP or "List processing". We will try to understand the  discovery of McCarthy (the founder of LISP), and where are programming languages heading, so stay put. One of the fundamental parts of LISP are expressions, that can be either an atom (sequence of letters) or a list of zero or more expressions (a b (c) d). These expressions can also return values, if is a list the first element is the operator  and the second the argument , and from this we get  quote ,  which in my opinion is something that you don't see in C like programming languages, but it makes all the scenes of the word, ( quote x) returns x.

This week was the turn of   Episode 158: Rich Hickey on Clojure  of the software engineering radio, that invited the creator of Clojure programming language, Rich Hickey, that give an explanation of the functionality of Clojure and other technical stuff about it. One of the most interesting question that was asked, is ¿Why is LIST not a mainstream language? And the answer was that List was not design to be a mainstream language, but to be used by SUPER USERS, like scientist, people that are trying to solve really hard problems, and the point was to give them the power to do so. List became really popular but lost it when AI boom disappeared.  Other thing that he mention that was fascinating was that programming is a social thing, most of the time when people outside the software engineering path think about the stereotype of the programmers they believed that we are antisocial and love the dark in our room, but the truth is that the field strongly encourage you to work side by side wit

  Esta semana toco escuchar un podcast de 2008 sobre programación funcional, inteligencia artificial, el lenguaje de programación LISP y poesía, un poco de todo. El podcast de “Software Engineering Radio” llamado “Dick Gabrien on LISP”, nos pone a escuchar a (vaya la redundancia) Dick Gabriel, un científico de la computación, muy conocido por su trabajo en la programación funcional, principalmente en LISP y por su poesía; Bueno, quizá por la poesía no tanto. Dick Gabriel busco desarrollar el lenguaje funcional como una forma en la que pueda ayudar a la implementación más sencilla para la inteligencia artificial, lo cual tuvo su auge en los 50s y 60s, pero fue bajando la popularidad de LISP debido a que hay otros paradigmas de programación que un sentido empresarial, sale más barato contratar personal que conozca de Java o C. La popularidad de LISP llevo a que se crearan modificaciones específicas para el uso de cada comunidad particular, por lo que se decidió crear el CLOS (Common

  All my life I have been wondering why does man discriminate women so much, like, it is because men have more physical strength? And that make us man thought that women were inferior? In my point of view that’s dumb And I hate that that mentality is still in our days. Reading this article opened my eyes to the exceptional work that women have been doing for Computer sciences all this year, amazing that in most cases man got the credit for their achievement, for example the Eniac demonstration they don’t mention the women that bring that to life. Also, the mentality that programming was a woman’s work was because it was seemed as a secretarial work, and that not man enough, so in the 90s 35% of programmers were women. Now is 13 to 14%, and I hope that the stereotype that engineering is for man don’t continue anymore. The contributions of women are amazing, to the “break point” for debugging a program, the first compiler and Cobol language. Well, if I don’t do programming, was els