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kevin cline
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  • Seattle, WA, USA
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I've been programming since I was 15. I started with APL at the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics in 1974. At Carnegie-Mellon I learned FORTRAN, and ALGOL/W, and Pascal, did a lot of TOPS-20 assembly programming hacking the MM mail reader, a fair bit of TECO programming customizing the first versions of Emacs, and a bit of INTERLISP and SAIL. After graduating, I have worked in BLISS-36, a tiny bit of Cobol, a decade of C, lots of Perl and EMACS-LISP, C++, Ada, Tcl, C#, Java, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and lately some Groovy.

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Where did the notion of "one return only" come from?
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Dealing with management that does not see value in improvements that are not immediately visible to the user
Feb 1, 2012
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Thoughts on Development using Virtual Machines
Aug 25, 2011
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How do I handle disagreement in a code review regarding an unlikely edge case?
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Why is naming a table's Primary Key column "Id" considered bad practice?
Oct 17, 2011
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My boss decided to add a "person to blame" field to every bug report. How can I convince him that it's a bad idea?
Jun 28, 2012
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Is a senior programmers advice about always using books a good idea?
Dec 5, 2013
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Why aren't there other programming languages that compile to Python bytecode?
May 17, 2012
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Eliminating Magic Numbers: When is it time to say "No"?
Mar 9, 2011
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Is it considered a bad practice to add logic in a property setter?
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Is it naive to tell my current employer that I'll be leaving, months in advance?
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