The Wild Wild Web

Welcome to the 87th issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, about Considered Harmful. In this edition: We weigh the historical and philosophical implications of the phrase “Considered Harmful”. In our Vidéothèque section, we watch Phil Nash explain which parts of OOP can be considered harmful. In the Libra [...]

Harmfully Considered

15 days ago | De Programmatica Ipsum

We, the authors of the magazine you are reading right now, sometimes joke that the true legacy of these articles would be realized if someone presented a paper titled “De Programmatica Ipsum Considered Harmful”. Alas (or not), we do not think this is ever going to happen, although I know that some m [...]

Phil Nash

15 days ago | De Programmatica Ipsum

A quick search on YouTube with the query “Considered Harmful” is a revealing exercise. The number and variety of articles thereby returned is outstanding and, to a certain extent, hilarious. The day I wrote this article I had the following ones popping up, all of which were literally considered harm [...]

Joanna Rutkowska

15 days ago | De Programmatica Ipsum

In a key scene of the 2012 blockbuster James Bond film “Skyfall”, MI6 quartermaster Q, played by Ben Whishaw, realizes too late that plugging a cable into the laptop of a notoriously skilled terrorist like Raoul Silva (one of Javier Bardem’s most remarkable roles) was a terrible idea. After a few se [...]

Issue 086: Borland

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Welcome to the 86th issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, about Borland. In this edition: We explain to younger generations what the name “Borland” meant to older cohorts of software engineers. In our Vidéothèque section, we watch a video about OOP by Borland’s founder Philippe Kahn. In the Library sect [...]

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