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ANSI-ISO PASCAL edit / delete

"This page contains various information about the computer language Pascal as stated by the ISO 7185, the original Pascal language designed by Niklaus Wirth at ETH in Zurich, and any implementations of that language." There's lots of description of Delphi and other derivations elsewhere, but this is very comprehensive on ISO PASCAL, including the history of its compilers.

to compiler history iso language-design pascal retrocomputing software ... on 05 March 2015

On Go edit / delete

A critical comparison of Go and... Algol 68. I would also observe that Go failed to learn even from occam, another Algol-derived language that it's much more closely related to. But I wasn't previously aware of some of the cool features that Algol 68 had; this is a good read.

to algol concurrency go language-design retrocomputing ... on 05 March 2015

Algol W - Everything2.com edit / delete

Excellent description of the language from a former user. (There is at least one reasonably-modern implementation, AWE.)

to algol history language-design retrocomputing ... on 05 March 2015

Language-theoretic Security edit / delete

"The Language-theoretic approach (LANGSEC) regards the Internet insecurity epidemic as a consequence of ad hoc programming of input handling at all layers of network stacks, and in other kinds of software stacks." Some interesting work, although it's obviously focussing on one class of problem...

to langsec language-design parser proof security verification ... on 03 January 2015

Thinking Forth edit / delete

Leo Brodie's classic book, now available under a Creative Commons license.

to books etext forth language-design programming rpn software-engineering ... on 24 November 2014

Go's Declaration Syntax - The Go Blog edit / delete

Discussion of Go's slightly unusual type declarations. I appreciate what they're trying to do -- but occam solved the same problem in the 1980s without having to write all the declarations backwards...

to go language-design syntax types ... on 23 November 2014

PROMAL for the Commodore 64 edit / delete

An indentation-structured language for the C64. This would have been roughly contemporary with occam. Looks like quite a decent (B-ish) language.

to 6502 c64 commodore compiler indentation language-design retrocomputing software ... on 03 October 2014

The C++14 Standard: What You Need to Know | Dr Dobb's edit / delete

Good overview of the useful stuff inthe new standard. (Only a few new features this time round.)

to ag0803 c++ c++14 language-design ... on 22 September 2014

Hawk/Ftwalk: Home edit / delete

A crossbreed of awk and find, with a more powerful language behind it. This is a pretty nice design, although thoroughly eclipsed by Perl.

to awk find ftwalk hawk language-design perl software ... on 25 August 2014

C++11/14 idioms I use every day | Seshbot Programs edit / delete

Generally useful (rather than obscure) features.

to ag0700 ag0803 c++ c++11 c++14 language-design ... on 24 August 2014