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Boeing Flies on 99% Ada
A discussion of how Boeing used Ada in its new 777 jet to run a complete fly-by-wire system that technicians backup and monitor with on-board floppy disks. The Ada Information Clearinghouse is the Ada Resource Association's official Web site on the Ada programming language and on software engineering.
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Object Oriented Programming is Inherently Harmful
“ Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. ” – Edsger Dijkstra
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SBCL 1.2.0 Released with ARM support
New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of the two most recent SBCL releases are listed below.
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Critiquing Facebook's new PHP spec
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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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Refactoring Ruby with Monads
Hello! I’m going to tell you about monads, and how we can uncover them by refactoring our Ruby code.
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Elixir v0.13.0 released, hex.pm and ElixirConf announced
Elixir v0.13.0 comes with substantial improvements to the language: maps, structs, comprehensiona and more. It also marks the announcement of the hex.pm package manager and the announcement of ElixirConf.
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FTL: WebKit’s LLVM-based JIT
Over the past year, the WebKit project made tremendous progress on the ability to optimize JavaScript applications. A major part of that effort was the introduction of the Fourth Tier LLVM (FTL) JIT.
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The JavaScript Problem
It makes many aspects of JavaScript sane and convenient, and you get a compilation check that verifies syntax, however it still suffers greatly from weak-typing.
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Popular Myths about C++, Part 3
[For your winter reading pleasure, we're pleased to present this three-part series of new material by Bjarne Stroustrup. Part one is here , part two is here . Today we complete the series just in time for the holidays. Enjoy. -- Ed.]
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Static checking of units in Servo
Web browsers do a lot of calculations on geometric coordinates, in many different coordinate systems and units of measurement. For example, a browser may need to translate a position expressed ...
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Why Ada isn't Popular (1998)
Rick Thorne writes: > In truth, I like Ada too. I'm a former Ada man myself, as I believe I > mentioned. There are great things about the language, and since we're all > aware of them there's no point in going into them. I also prefer Beta to > VHS. Mathew Heaney responds: This is actually a specious comparison…
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Go Concurrency Patterns: Context
An introduction to the Go context package.
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Ruby 2.1.3 is released
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.1.3.This is a patchlevel release of the stable 2.1 series.
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GitHub Language Trends
A while ago, I wanted to get a little quick feedback on some data I was playing with, but the day was almost over and I wasn’t done working on it yet. I decided to tweet my rough draft of a graph of GitHub language trends anyway, followed later by a slight improvement. Much to my surprise,
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Introducing the new PHP on Heroku
PHP developers are makers at heart. The core strength of PHP has always been in creating a tight feedback cycle between developers and their audiences.