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SETL edit / delete

"SETL is a general-purpose, high-level programming language in which sets and first-order mappings are fundamental to the syntax and semantics of the language." Another one of those early functional languages that could be interestingly modernised.

to functional language-design setl ... on 29 June 2020

Gregory Szorc's Digital Home | Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3 edit / delete

"Succinctly, my experience porting Mercurial and other projects to Python 3 has significantly soured my perceptions of Python. As much as I have historically loved Python - from the language to the welcoming community - I am still struggling to understand how Python could manage to inflict so much hardship on the community by choosing the transition plan that they did." Hear, hear.

to language-design mercurial python ... on 29 June 2020

AB21.3.6 edit / delete

Tony Hoare's 1965 proposal for adding records to Algol. It's quite nice.

to algol cmp409 data-structures language-design retrocomputing ... on 15 January 2019

abseil / C++ Tips of the Week edit / delete

Bite-sized advice on modern C++, from developers at Google. Feels much like the old C++ FAQ Lite entries. Worth a look for CMP201 students.

to c++ cmp201 generics language-design programming templates ... on 25 October 2018

Abbreviated vs. Full-Word Identifier Names edit / delete

"We carried out a family of controlled experiments to investigate whether the use of abbreviated identifier names, with respect to full-word identifier names, affects fault fixing in C and Java source code. [...] Overall results suggested that there is no difference in terms of effort, effectiveness, and efficiency to fix faults, when source code contains either only abbreviated or only full-word identifier names."

to cmp409 errors experiment language-design ... on 24 October 2018

C&C - Archives edit / delete

Lots of interesting articles introducing aspects of programming language design. CMP409 students should have a flip through this.

to cmp409 language-design types ... on 24 October 2018

C&C - A Crash Course on ML Modules edit / delete

A really good description of Standard ML's module system (and OCaml, where it differs). I do like ML's modules, but wish the syntax and terminology was a bit friendlier...

to cmp409 functional language-design ml module ocaml ... on 24 October 2018

50 Shades of Go: Traps, Gotchas, and Common Mistakes for New Golang Devs edit / delete

Mostly interesting to me for the concurrency problems.

to concurrency errors go language-design ... on 24 October 2018

Modern garbage collection – Mike’s blog edit / delete

A critical look at the tradeoffs in Go's GC. (Like their concurrency facilities, it ignores a lot of the advances in design in the late 70s.)

to cmp409 gc go language-design ... on 05 May 2018

Carp | Veit's Blog edit / delete

Lisp with Rust's (overcomplicated) linear types.

to language-design lisp rust type-systems ... on 10 December 2017