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19 why posts

by John on December 29, 2009

Here’s a list of 19 “why” posts I’ve written.

  1. Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity
  2. Why programmers write unneeded code
  3. Why care about spherical trig?
  4. Why Shakespeare is hard to read
  5. Why are bad guys so interesting in novels?
  6. Why proof by pattern of examples doesn’t work
  7. Why Ruby is a good language for DSLs
  8. Why SQL failed
  9. Why is TeX so popular in Germany?
  10. Why microarray study conclusions are so often wrong
  11. Why 90% solutions beat 100% solutions
  12. Why there will always be programmers
  13. Why so few electronic medical records
  14. Why heights are normally distributed
  15. Why heights are not normally distributed
  16. Why computer scientists count from zero
  17. Why functional programming hasn’t taken off
  18. Why Unicode is subtle
  19. Why Mr. Scott is Scottish

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