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At the beginning of the article by Paul Graham, he explains to us the basics of how startups work and have worked for many years. If a startup doesn’t show something new, something different, or something better, then it is doomed to fail. If you do what the average does, you will fail the same way. Not only by being the first but also by being able to stay on top of its competitors when the time came, was why Graham’s startup was so successful that yahoo bought it. Now almost 20 years after, yahoo’s shopping site has lost a great amount of popularity to its competitors like amazon and eBay. Now, Graham continues on a topic very similar to the one on the previous article, The Semicolon Wars. How different languages look to someone who is already so familiarized with a certain programming language, that all the others seem either inferior in terms of computing power or are simply strange and don’t deserve the time of day. What they fail to realize is that a different language, as d...

The article written by Brian Hayes, The Semicolon Wars, gives us a look into the deep yet short history that programming languages have had as a whole. The simple fact that by the time the article was written, it could be argued that there were between 2500 programming languages up to the astounding number of 8500 languages, shows us how quickly we as programmers are never satisfied with whatever language we are using, and even if we are, we can always find something that bothers us or that there is something we can do to make a language more powerful or better in our own terms. In the article, it explains how simple things like the use of a semicolon, be it to separate or to end a statement, to the way comments are formatted, can cause friction between the different users of a language. But not only are aesthetic matters the thing that differentiate between two languages but also their function at the time to implement them, Fortran for its computing power, COBOL for its business a...

Hello, My name is Anuar Rivera I like to play videogames, my favorites being of the RPG genre, like Dark Souls, Final Fantasy, World of Warcraft and other games like The Legend of Zelda and Pokemon. I also like different animated TV shows like Bojack Horseman, Rick and Morty, Steven Universe and Gravity Falls and Japanese shows like Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Overlord and Attack on Titan. I mostly enjoy reading Japanese manga like One Piece, Hajime no Ippo and One Punch Man but I also enjoy fantasy novels like the Harry Potter series and Lord of the Rings. Among other hobbies I enjoy roller skating, playing tabletop games and while I tried to learn to play the guitar, it was never my strong point, although I enjoy mostly classic rock music like AC DC, Toto, A-ha and Oingo Boingo. Although I don't know what to expect of the course, I hope its something that will help me understand and develop a different method of programming that will help me in the near future