Today we are going to talk about a person in a quest to let everyone know that the most popular functional programming language in the world is none other than Microsoft Excel. Yes, the claim sounds outlandish, debatable, laughable, even...

Given the pervasiveness and versatility of computers in our world of 2025 it is easy to ignore that 80 years ago they were initially conceived as what we would call today a calculator, specifically created to solve tedious mathematical...

Welcome to the 83rd issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, about PHP. In this edition: We solemnly declare that PHP deserves a second chance. In the Library section, we review “PHP: The Right Way” by Josh Lockhart & Phil Sturgeon. In our...

In 1995, an otherwise unknown software developer released the first version of a new scripting language whose explicit aim was to make applications for this new platform called “The World Wide Web”. After starting as a small project, and...