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  The Evolution of a Programmer

High School/Jr.High 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" 20 ENDFirst year in College program Hello(input, output) begin writeln('Hello World') end.Senior year in College (defun hello (print (cons 'Hello (list 'World))))New professional #include <stdio.h> void main(void) { char *message[] = {"Hello ", "World"}; int i; for(i = 0; i < 2; ++i) printf("%s", message[i]); printf("\n"); }Seasoned professional #include <iostream.h> #include <string.h> class string { private: int size; char *ptr; string() : size(0), ptr(new char[1]) { ptr...

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  How to Be an Optimist in a Pessimistic Time: A Techonomy Manifesto

Gapminder WorldIt’s no secret that technology is changing the world. Unfortunately, there are a surprising number of people who don’t get it. Many of them, even more unfortunately, are important leaders in business, other powerful instutitions, and governments. To meet the challenges that face us—whether as leaders of organizations, as leaders of countries, or as the global community addressing our collective challenge—we will only be successful if we unreservedly embrace technology and innovation as essential tools. The Techonomy conference, which begins in Tucson ...

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  The Go Programming Language Turns Two

Two years ago a small team at Google went public with their fledgling project - the Go Programming Language. They presented a language spec, two compilers, a modest standard library, some novel tools, and plenty of accurate (albeit succinct) documentation. They watched with excitement as programmers around the world began to play with Go. The team continued to iterate and improve on what they had built, and were gradually joined by dozens - and then hundreds - of programmers from the open source community.The Go Authors went on to produce lots of libraries, new tools, and reams of documentatio...

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