The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

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Sunday, October 25, 2015

Notes on an overheard conversation while watching an interview with Bill Clinton

“Have you seen Bill Clinton recently?”

“Yeah, he's very thin and looks old.”

“He's not that old though.”

“I guess being married to Hillary will do that to you.”

“I guess so.”


Oh, it's the expression problem

Years ago I blogged about an observation I had about the main difference between procedural programming and object oriented programming, mainly, that procedural programming emphasizes actions (or “verbs”) while object oriented programming emphasizes data (or “nouns”) but there currently exists no programming language that allows one to expand both easily. It's not a unique observation, but it wasn't until today that I learned it actually has a name—the expression problem.

And there's still no programming language that allows one to expand both easily at the same time.

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