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In Praise of Perl 5
I have decided to do a two-part series here praising Perl in part 1 and PostgreSQL in part 2. I expect that PostgreSQL folks will get a l...
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C++17: I See a Monad in Your Future
[If you prefer, you may watch the video of my talk on this topic (here are the slides).] If you thought you were safe from functional programming in your cozy C++ niche, think again! First the lamb…
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Racket 6.0: New package system, new doc CSS, JIT support for ARM
_posted by Ryan Culpepper_ Racket version 6.0 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Racket 6.0 has a new package system, including a catalog of hundreds of already-available packages. Please visit http://pkgs.racket-lang.org/ for an overview ...
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Starting to Demo the Wolfram Language [video]
Stephen Wolfram introduces the Wolfram Language, with overview and demonstrations, in a video showing the power of this symbolic programming language.
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Ruby 2.1.1 is released and Ruby turns 21
Today, Feb. 24th, is the 21st anniversary of Ruby,so we happily announce a new patch release of Ruby 2.1, Ruby 2.1.1.
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Visual Programming Languages – Snapshots
Interface Vision is a group working on a software development platform that can be used without coding.
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OCaml: what you gain
Way back in June, in Replacing Python: second round, I wrote: The big surprise for me in these tests was how little you lose going from Python to …
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Saying goodbye to Python
This post is long overdue; this isn’t a declaration of intent (any intent was long ago made real), just my reflection about my own path. I left the Python world a long time ago but I never took a chance to say goodbye.
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The descent to C
This article attempts to give a sort of ‘orientation tour’ for people whose previous programming background is in high (ish) level languages such as Java or Python, and who now find that they need or want to learn C.
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JavaScript – The monkeys in 2013
A monkey. That’s the default name a part in the JavaScript Engine of Mozilla Firefox gets. Even the full engine has its own monkey name, ...
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Why I'm Betting On Julia
The problem with most programming languages is they’re designed by language geeks, who tend to worry about things that I don’t much care for. Safety, type systems, homoiconicity, and so forth. I’m sure these things are great, but when I’m messing around with a new project for fun, my two concerns are 1) making it work…
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Lisp: More is less
There’s recently been a resurgence of interest in Lisp (specifically, Clojure) in my neighborhood. I have some kind of a fondness for Lisp, but I think some of its characteristics make it poorly suited for use in large programming efforts. Indeed many of the unique properties that Lisp devotees (myself once included)…
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Asm.js AOT compilation and startup performance
With the recent announcement of a commercial game shipping using Emscripten and asm.js , I thought it’d be a good time to explain how asm.js is executed in Firefox and some of the load-time optimizations we’ve made since the initial landing of OdinMonkey in March. (OdinMonkey is an optimization module inside Mozilla’s…
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Hindley-Milner in Clojure
I wrote a lambda-calculus interpreter and an implementation of Hindley-Milner to type check it.
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New release of Self programming language
Named after the majestic, awe inspiring Anas platyrhynchos, the latest Self release 4.5.0 is now available for download. What’s new since 4.4? Build system redone by Tobias Pape. Now based on…