http://www.wordyard.com/2007/01/08/interview-and-profile/ Technology, politics, culture Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:07:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.wordyard.com/2007/01/08/interview-and-profile/#comment-460 Neel Krishnaswami Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:42:10 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1199#comment-460 I found the Simonyi interview to be quite depressing -- the hard part of doing things to programs is not the syntax but the semantics. Building an AST doesn't even rate an entry on the list of problems. I found the Simonyi interview to be quite depressing — the hard part of doing things to programs is not the syntax but the semantics. Building an AST doesn’t even rate an entry on the list of problems.

]]> http://www.wordyard.com/2007/01/08/interview-and-profile/#comment-459 Cleo Saulnier Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:56:59 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=1199#comment-459 Great interview. My favorite quote: "And it seems the software industry tends not to be introspective. There isn't a lot of history; there isn't a lot of examination of past mistakes." Great interview. My favorite quote: “And it seems the software industry tends not to be introspective. There isn’t a lot of history; there isn’t a lot of examination of past mistakes.”

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