A dangling pointer is indeterminate | TrustInSoft edit / delete

Well, that's an interesting bit of the C standard: "free(m); if (m == NULL) ..." is undefined behaviour...

to c language-design memory semantics undefined ... on 15 July 2014

ferd.ca -> An Open Letter to the Erlang Beginner (or Onlooker) edit / delete

A nice overview of what's unique about Erlang (the concurrency stuff is obvious, but the error handling is equally neat).

to concurrency erlang exceptions language-design programming safety ... on 24 May 2014

Artist's Notebook: Ramsey Nasser - ANIMAL edit / delete

Designing an Arabic programming language.

to arabic language language-design ... on 20 May 2014

Reasoning About the Heap in Rust edit / delete

Quote: "it's still worth applying Separation logic to get a feel for what's happening to the heap". I'm kind of impressed that the Rust designers have managed to come up with a design for reference types that's *more* complex than C++'s.

to formal-methods language-design memory reference rust separation-logic ... on 03 May 2014

C++ - From goto to std::transform edit / delete

Doing the same thing several different ways.

to c++ functional language-design ... on 27 April 2014

The Old Man and the C edit / delete

Sun's TeamWare team adopts C++ in the early 90s, and reflects on what they did and didn't like. (I find it kind of amazing that they didn't see any value in local variable declarations.)

to c c++ language-design ... on 05 March 2014

The XPL0 Programming Language edit / delete

Pascal-like language with some fun graphics demos.

to graphics language-design programming software xpl0 ... on 12 February 2014

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