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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
C++17: I See a Monad in Your Future! | Bartosz Milewski's Programming Cafe edit / delete
Why C++ futures are like monads. Neat!
to c++ concurrency future haskell language-design monad ... on 09 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
The Descent to C edit / delete
An excellent overview of what makes C (and the C subset of C++) an unusual programming language. Students: well worth a read.
to ag0700 ag0803 architecture c language-design programming teaching ... on 10 February 2014
The Universe of Discourse : Why I like Java edit / delete
"Java is neither a good nor a bad language. It is a mediocre language [...]". Quite.
to java language-design ... on 03 February 2014
SRFI 110: Sweet-expressions (t-expressions) edit / delete
Python-like syntax for Lisp-like languages -- there's a discussion of other attempts to do this further down.
to language-design lisp python syntax ... on 11 January 2014
British programming languages of the early 1950s.
to autocode compiler history language-design retrocomputing ... on 15 December 2013
Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, C, C++, Lua, tcl, javascript and Java comparison edit / delete
Comparison of lots of languages on a fairly simple string-handling problem. Interesting for the breadth of languages. I'd take his assertions with a large yellow roadside bin of salt, though.
to benchmarking language-design ... on 14 December 2013
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tasty by Adam Sampson.