Informing the world about the real China — Is China an autocratic or totalitarian state, or is it a democracy? China regards itself as a democracy. The West disagrees. The West believes that democracy must be based on multiparty elections and must allow more than one political party to form the government. China disagrees. In fact, the Chinese regard their country as the most democratic in the world. …

There is no shortage of articles about the top programming languages to learn. They generally fall into two categories: Those that focus on languages most in demand in the IT profession; in other words, they’re about jobs, jobs, jobs. Those that focus on languages that are currently “hot” or enjoying…

China’s Economy China’s GDP growth is expected to be 4.7 percent in 2023 and 5.0 percent in 2024, according to a Nikkei Asia survey. Economist Intelligence confirms this with 5.2 percent in 2023 and 4.8 percent in 2024. Morgan Stanley expects China’s GDP growth to blast past that of all developed economies…

I am gratified to see the publication of a new edition of Squeak by Example, an excellent book on a nice, friendly flavour of Smalltalk introduced in 1996. The book is now in 5.3 Edition, published in December of 2022, and can be downloaded from here. While I appreciate the…

MMXXII, or 2022, was the 50th anniversary of the Smalltalk programming language. For this, the Smalltalk community conducted several celebratory events throughout the year… In February, we held JRMPC 2022, The 50th Anniversary Edition. In June, we held Camp Smalltalk Supreme in Toronto, Canada. In September, we held the Making…

MMXXII, or 2022, was the 50th anniversary of the Smalltalk programming language. For this, the Smalltalk community conducted several celebratory events throughout the year… In February, we held JRMPC 2022, The 50th Anniversary Edition. In June, we held Camp Smalltalk Supreme in Toronto, Canada. In September, we held the Making…

When choosing a programming language, you must decide what are the top requirements for your project. In this article, we will examine this question on the basis of two broad categories: (1) speed of software development, and (2) speed of software execution. Speed of software development depends on the cognitive…

Today, they do. They didn’t think so 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago. But in the last 20 years, a whole lot has happened to change the minds of the Chinese… First, China has become enormously prosperous. China has the world’s largest economy by purchasing power parity. …

JavaScript is one of the top three most popular programming languages in the world (the other two are Python and Java). The reason for this is because of the enormous popularity and demand for web applications, and JavaScript is the only programming language built into the web browser. This fact…