The Old Man and the C

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

Pascal-like language with some fun graphics demos.

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

The Descent to C

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

"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)

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

The Autocodes

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

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

FrontPage - parasail

"ParaSail is a new parallel programming language designed to support the development of inherently safe and secure, highly parallel applications that can be mapped to multicore, manycore, heterogeneous, or distributed architectures."

to language-design parallel parasail programming ... on 14 December 2013

Project Oberon (New Edition 2013)

Book on the development of the Oberon system. I remember playing with this on the Amiga a long time ago...

to etext history language-design oberon retrocomputing ... on 14 December 2013

Clay Programming Language

A modern C++-style language; uses Haskell-ish type inference techniques to allow reasonably pretty generic programming.

to c++ generics language-design type-inference types ... on 14 December 2013

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