This requires… that every word tell.
Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr., Harcourt, Brace & Howe, 1920.
Cited by Ernie Miller, That’s Not Very Ruby of You, RubyConf 2013.
"Pomp and ceremony"
The Java ecosystem warps your brain into a mode of thinking where modularity patterns like DI and decoration are like ancient gods
Orientation
Your domain model is not in your classes, it’s in the communication patterns between the objects at runtime.
Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce, Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests, Addison Wesley, 2009.
Procedural code gets information then makes decisions. Object-oriented code tells objects to do things.
Alec Sharp, Smalltalk by Example: The Developer’s Guide, McGraw-Hill, 1997.
Cited by Matt Wynne, Hexagonal Rails, GoRuCo 2012
EMCAScript
EMCAScript sounds like a skin disease
Brendan Eich, The Present and Future of the Web Platform, QCon San Francisco 2013
Standards
PNaCl/PPAPI’s goals are clearly much broader than that, otherwise Google would be limiting the attack surface by whitelisting specific plugins that matter and not encouraging people to build new ones.
(HN)
Scheme
This “JS = Scheme” meme was hugely legimitizing to a horde of programmers feeling unsure of themselves in the face of grizzly C programmers who allocated their own damn memory, probably right after building their own computer out of rocks and twigs.