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Paul Nathan
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"Comments are a code smell"
Sep 2, 2010
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Why does a computer science degree matter to a professional programmer?
Mar 17, 2011
78
Why is Lisp useful?
Oct 4, 2010
47
Do dynamic typed languages deserve all the criticism?
Sep 14, 2010
27
What is abstraction?
Nov 1, 2010
18
Would you use (a dialect of) LISP for a real-world application? Where and why?
Feb 23, 2011
18
Do you sign each of your source files with your name?
Aug 17, 2011
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Is good code impossible in modern software development?
Jan 27, 2011
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Interesting or unique types in programming languages?
Jan 25, 2011
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Why are objects passed by reference?
Mar 11, 2011
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How to reconcile guidelines, community opinion and moderation
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Are "name that thing" questions on-topic?
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How can we improve our guidance about the purpose of comments?
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What is the difference between hg forget and hg remove?
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Cancelling upvote on comment?
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Generating a list of which files changed between hg versions
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Markdown footnotes?
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"Wrong type argument: commandp" error when binding a lambda to a key