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For all practical purposes, BASIC is seldom used and mostly forgotten today. But given my praise for it, why is it like that? As I see there were three reasons, and as time went by, their accumulated effect was devastating.Reason #1.The IBM PC, and later it’s clones, completely overtook the home computer market. On ...

Modern computer hardware is so capable that we can often simply ignore its limitations when writing code. Conceptually though, any function that allocates memory is inherently context-dependent: its outcome depends not only on the arguments passed in but also on the amount of contiguous RAM the system is able to gra...

Have you ever wondered how the likes of Python or Java got their names? Let’s take a look at some programming languages and the story behind how they were named.Before we start — If you’re curious about how things are named, check out my newsletter Why Is That Called That, where I explore the origin of words, phrase...

In the last ~10 or so years, many of the popular scripting languages gained optional static typing: JavaScript (via TypeScript), PHP, Python, even Ruby has something along the lines as far as I know.It’s become quite widespread in each of these languages’ communities, to the point of being considered a best practice...

This is part I of a series of articles on using Mojo in Advent of Code.Go here for the introduction and table of contents.Performance overviewLet’s start with the headliner. Is Mojo actually as fast as the company advertises it to be? Well, it depends. It’s plenty fast when you spend some time optimizing. After gett...