Axis of Eval

Manuel Simoni's blog about programming (languages).

2013 Update: I was young and stupid when I wrote this. I fear that Haskell is doomed to succeed. — Tony Hoare I ♥ Lisp. I think it's t...

I was just chatting with Ben Titzer on Twitter about control flow in his Virgil language (which is cool and you should definitely check ...

I'm an incredibly slow programmer (in the hobby projects I do for the love of it, that is). My ratio of thinking to typing must be around 10...

(I wish someone had written this letter to me years ago.—Ed.) Dear young programming language enthusiast! You are fascinated by programming ...

From a bit to a few hundred megabytes, from a microsecond to a half an hour of computing confronts us with completely baffling ratio of 10 9...