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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
Pascal-like language with some fun graphics demos.
to graphics language-design programming software xpl0 ... on 12 February 2014
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
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
"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
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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tasty by Adam Sampson.