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To erlang or not to erlang: That is the php question.
Persistent PHP processes in Erlang/OTP. “It’s so easy, in fact, that I now use it to debug WordPress functions from within Erlang.”
Scheme Is Love
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Rifle-Oriented Programming with Clojure
Any comparison of hot JVM languages is likely to note that “Clojure is not object-oriented.” This is true, but it may lead you to the wrong concl...
Google App Inventor uses Scheme under the hood
Posted by Bill Magnuson, Hal Abelson, and Mark FriedmanWe recently announced our App Inventor for Android project on the Google Research Blog. Tha...
Python vs Ruby, slightly more in-depth
Disclaimers Edit (2009/08/04): It is not obvious for many readers that this blog and its articles are meant as opinion piece. It is also not obvious that I like both languages. Just to be clear, I …
Why Dijkstra suggested Premature-Loop-Exit Prohibition
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
Can your programming language do this?
In information theory, entropy is the measurement of the amount of randomness in a probability distribution. It's defined as In my code, it'...
Scala as long-term replacement for Java
Don't get me wrong - I've written tons of Java over the last decade or so & think its been a great evolutionary step from C++ and Smalltalk ...
Potion: A Short Pamphlet
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Someday we will all program in Python
I can write a program in Java about twice as fast as as I can write the same program C or C++, and I can bang out the same program in Python maybe twice again as fast as I can in Java. In Python, you just get straight to the point and say what you mean by saying things like:
Parrot VM v1.3.0 Released
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 1.3.0 "Andean Swift." Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.