Colin McMillen

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Previously at Google, reCAPTCHA, & Carnegie Mellon.

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93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs

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TLDR: read the paper and view the gallery of pretty Perl programs. In this paper, we aim to answer a long-standing open problem in the programming languages community: is it possible to smear paint on the wall without creating valid Perl?

Why your new programming language won't work

2011311 points128 commentscited by 11Programming Languages details