I started writing an internal blog at Amazon.com in summer 2004. It wasn't (and isn't) endorsed by Amazon; it's just my personal blog, where I wrote what…

I've just read a couple of Steve Yegge's blogs about why he thinks certain languages have succeeded while other technically superior languages have faile…

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In my spare time for the past year or so, I've conducted a long-running experiment to study a bunch of different languages, hoping to find at least one th…

Yegge began his career as a computer programmer at GeoWorks in 1992. [4] [5] From 1998 to 2005, he worked as a Senior Manager of Software Development at A…

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I started writing an internal blog at Amazon.com in summer 2004. It wasn't (and isn't) endorsed by Amazon; it's just my personal blog, where I wrote what…

I've just read a couple of Steve Yegge's blogs about why he thinks certain languages have succeeded while other technically superior languages have faile…

tour-de-babel This is my whirlwind languages tour — the one I was going to write for the Amazon Developers Journal this month, but couldn't find a way to…

next-big-thing When Joel Spolsky talked here at the Amazon Dev Conference, I thought it was just about the coolest and most enlightening talk about progr…

In my spare time for the past year or so, I've conducted a long-running experiment to study a bunch of different languages, hoping to find at least one th…

Yegge began his career as a computer programmer at GeoWorks in 1992. [4] [5] From 1998 to 2005, he worked as a Senior Manager of Software Development at A…

Related Posts Post navigation One thought on “Steve Yegge on Google” I assumed Google’s lack of API’s and integration was a feature, not a bug. I found i…

I've been publishing to my Amazon.com internal blog since May 10th, 2004. During that time I've unintentionally developed my own blogging style, and I've …

When it started I thought Yegge sounded nervous and jittery and seemed a little intense, like he had a chip on his shoulder and I thought "Oh boy, I hope …

ocaml I'm learning a relatively new programming language called OCaml, or Objective Caml. All the Ph.D. candidates have been raving about it for the past…

Back from retirement working on AI at Sourcegraph Featuring Brought to you by This week it’s storytime with Steve Yegge! Steve came out of retirement to …

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living pers…

Now he's back with an (intentionally) public memo that serves to flatter Jeff Bezos to no end. This is a departure from his original rant, in which he sla…

I've been playing this video game called Fable. It's for the XBox. I've got Fable on the brain now, and since I have a growing list of 1/3-finished blog e…

I've tried to read more lately -- where "lately" is maybe the past 2 years -- in an attempt to learn things that I didn't know much about before. O'Reilly…

Emacs is the world's best text editor. It's not just the best for editing program source; it's the best for any kind of text-editing. Mastering Emacs will…

The software industry has been around a lot longer than ours, and it continues to thrive in parallel to ours. There's some overlap, just as the hardware a…

I've gone and let the cat out of the bag right up front, because I don't want you to hear my thesis halfway through and feel I've been wasting your time. …

Every OOP fan is almost by definition a fan of polymorphism. Lots of otherwise good books (e.g. Fowler's Refactoring ) go so far as to say if you use runt…

But Steve Yegge never fully explains what he means by “system” and this is just one of the problems I have with this thesis. He gives a few examples of “s…

I've been on a lot of SDE interview loops lately where the candidate failed miserably: not-inclined votes all around, even from the phone screeners who br…

Steve Yegge wrote a terrific post about refactoring , " Transformation ," in March of 2006. My two cent review is that the most valuable part is his discu…

Everything Yegge writes is well worth a read, and most of the times, I agree with what he writes. The following is extracted from this talk. “OK: I went…