Every programming languages are just sequence, selection, iteration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mslMLp5bQD0&feature=player_embedded#!

by maheshs • 16 years ago

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pwpwp• 16 years ago

Could you please take the time to go over your title before you post, or read it after you posted it, and make sure it's grammatically correct?

Thanks.

Qz2• 16 years ago

With a little homework you could have easily figured out the poster is not a native English speaker and thus spared making yourself look like a bit of an ass.

zygen• 16 years ago

Isn't that even more reason to check it for correctness? I know when I write in German I do at least two proof readings before I send it out into the wild, preferably after checking with a native speaker.

jshen3• 16 years ago

I have a hard time watching his talks. Too much fluff around the substance.

joe_the_user• 16 years ago

I'd never heard Martin talk.

Honestly, I found him to be an amazing speaker.

I did not find any "fluff", just a wide viewpoint.

jshen3• 16 years ago

yeah, a lot of people like his talks. Something about his style is abrasive to me.

I really liked him on the stack overflow podcast though.

nodogbite• 16 years ago

He seems just a little too full of himself. One of those people who gets too much pleasure from hearing words come out of his own mouth.

jeberle• 16 years ago

I happily accept the mad flourishes of Robert Martin. They fortify his arguments and help engage the audience. Good education has an element of entertainment and emotion. It's a part of how we learn, or at least, how we learn best.

kjhughes2• 16 years ago

The presentation is dynamic and flamboyant, but the content is unoriginal and uninspired.

Summary: Hardware's progressed O(10^25); software, no where near as much. Software's just been sequence, selection, and iteration in various guises. Moore's law is ending; clock-speeds, slowing; multi-core, coming. Functional programming will help.

Check it out if you're interested in a fun talk about programming and history of languages. The intended audience, despite being at a Rails Conference, seemed to be programmers who've not ventured far from the popular languages of the day. Anyone else will likely be disappointed, waiting for a new message that's never delivered.

teaspoon• 16 years ago

O(10^25) = O(1)

dkersten2• 16 years ago

Substituting that in...

Summary: Hardware's progressed linearly; software, no where near as much.

jshen3• 16 years ago

hehe, a lesson for the kids, all constants scale the same.

kjhughes2• 16 years ago

Sure. Trivially true. I meant to overloaded O() to mean "order of magnitude" when used for a constant factor, but you're right that in computational complexity's big O notation, O(k) = O(1) for all constants k.

Every programming languages are just sequence, selection, iteration

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