Max Castillo Programming Languages

This week’s article was written by Paul Graham, who is a Lisp programmer and cofounder of the Viaweb Company (which was sold to Yahoo in the late nineties). The title of the article is “Beating the Averages”, and as the title says, it has to do with how Paul and Robert (his friend and cofounder of Viaweb) used Lisp (which Paul says is a very little known and used language) to successfully get ahead of their competitors. When they had the idea of making their application run on their server, Paul saw that you could use any language that you wanted, but this was also a problem, because you also had to choose the one that was better. The advantage that Paul saw in Lisp is that most people at the time found it weird and hard to use (they still do now), yet it was a language that allowed them to make developments faster due to its simplicity while needing less developers (allowing them to cut costs). This gave him the technological edge among all the startups that may have been possib

“The Semicolon Wars” is an article written by Brian Hayes, a senior columnist for American Scientist . In this article, he writes about the enormous diversity that we have today regarding programming languages. For starters, I was really amazed with the enormous quantity of programming languages that we have nowadays; the estimate with the higher number of programming languages is higher than the estimate of spoken languages around the world! It’s amazing how we even accomplish stuff with that number of languages, but I believe this diversity is of utmost importance. Hayes also writes about the possibility of the “one true language”, one that we could keep improving and evolving until it’s a multi-purpose all-powerful language. I greatly disagree with this. Up until now, my programming work has heavily leaned towards low level programming, and this is where I could observe the importance of having different programming languages. For example, when I programmed on an ATMEGA3

Hi, my name is Luis Maximiliano Castillo Sandoval, ISDR, but the name Luis was too trendy at the time of my birth, so maybe you know a lot of Luises already, that's why I think it might be easier for you to just think of me as Max. I enjoy playing videogames with great stories, watching a good film or series, or reading a well written book, so you could say I enjoy any kind of good story. But I'm not an always-stays-at-home kind of guy, I also enjoy a lot of outdoors activities. If you want me to go with you to an adventure into the wilderness, or to help you with work at your ranch, I will not only say yes, but will be very excited about it. All in all a country boy. When I'm not busy with school stuff, you can find me at any place that has grass, a tree and a good place to sit comfortably, usually carving something out of wood. Or sometimes you can also find me at my workshop, crafting some new crazy idea like a strongbox made out of wood, or a wood rifle that shoots