lunes, 21 de noviembre de 2016

[Discussion] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

So finally we reach the end of the course, we have been learning a lot of things and today I will talk particularly about the book we red in class: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The first thing I must say about the book is that it’s completly oriented to geeks or to anyone who enjoys reading...

domingo, 30 de octubre de 2016

jueves, 20 de octubre de 2016

domingo, 9 de octubre de 2016

[Discussion] Compile-Time Metaprogramming

This time I listened the Software Engineering Podcast, Episode 57: Compile-Time Metaprogramming[1] where Laurence Tratt was present as guest. Although the episode focuses in the Converge programming language (created by Tratt), it has some significant topics of general interest for the listeners. To...

[Discussion] The mother of compilers

This post entry is an opinion about two resources: the article Grace Hopper - The Mother of Cobol[1] and the video documentary The Queen of Code[2]. Grace Hopper is the one who created the Cobol language. She was a mathematician and became a Navy Admiral in her young age. It is said that she also coined...

jueves, 8 de septiembre de 2016

[Discussion] Internals of GCC

Today I was listening the episode 61[1] of the Software Engineering Radio where Morgan Deters was present as a guest. Basically Deters explains in a very general way how the GNU Compiler Collection is constructed. I only knew the very basics of gcc, mainly because I use it every time I want to compile...

martes, 30 de agosto de 2016

[Discussion] The hundread-years programming language

This blog post is my personal opinion after reading the article "The Hundread-Year Language" written by Paul Graham in his website [1]. Can you imagine how is the future going to be? As we can see from now, it is more than probabble that computers will still be one of the main tools for industries...