Submissions by MikeTaylor

2500 words on the subject of brevity in programming

Programming the Commodore 64: The Definitive Guide

Imperative is "how to calculate a factorial"; functional just says what one is.

Where Dijkstra went wrong: the value of BASIC as a first programming language

Experiences with Commodore computers: the 300 bytes-per-second disk-drive

The Elements of Programming Style: "say what you mean, simply and directly"

Whatever happened to programming, redux: it may not be as bad as all that