This post originally appeared on Code-love. In an online chat session between Yukihiro Matsumoto and Keiju Ishitsuka in early 1993, a discussion ensued about the name of a programming language that ...

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I'm a mild newbie programmer-to-be.<BR>I've taken a quarter of C++, and know a modicum of Smalltalk-80(Squeak), as well as some light shell scripting. C++ didn't really groove terribly well with me, ...

Top coders have near limitless prospects when it comes to employment, or even opportunities to succeed in their own startups. In fact, learning to code is fast becoming a necessary life skill, with ...