Tasty » Adam Sampson's language bookmarks

Coding Guidelines edit / delete

Includes an online book that's an *incredibly* detailed commentary on the C99 spec (1600-odd pages). Fascinating stuff.

to c design language research ... on 16 December 2006

History of Haskell - HaskellWiki edit / delete

Detailed paper on the development of Haskell -- very interesting reading. The other papers in the same conference will probably be worth checking out too.

to design haskell language research ... on 07 October 2006

Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68 edit / delete

Possibly the first mainstream language to feature concurrency?

to concurrency design language research retrocomputing ... on 21 September 2006

Squirrel edit / delete

Scripting language with (basic) concurrency features.

to concurrency design language research scripting ... on 21 September 2006

The Universe of Discourse : Design patterns of 1972 edit / delete

MJD writing about how design patterns can inform language features -- a nice summary of the point.

to design language patterns research ... on 11 September 2006

Common Message Runtime edit / delete

Suggesting POP as a means of getting inter-language support. The library he suggests (for inter-process lightweight concurrency and communication with shared memory) would be a worthwhile project to implement.

to ipc language parallelism research ... on 09 September 2006

autobio edit / delete

Justin Hall's rather cool (and very random) web site. There's some interesting travel stuff about Japan here.

to amusements japan language travel ... on 13 August 2006

A+: a programming language for actual programmers edit / delete

The deeply scary A+ language (from MSDW's internal software department). It's essentially a modern APL, complete with custom character set. I'm sure it's very expressive if you're familiar with it, but it has the most alien-looking syntax I've seen...

to apl design language programming vector ... on 13 August 2006

io - about edit / delete

Prototype-based language with concurrency features.

to concurrency design language prototypes research ... on 13 August 2006

Martin Richards edit / delete

Some retrocomputing stuff, but most interestingly MCPL, a BCPL-inspired untyped low-level language which has pattern matching. It's really cool in an odd sort of way.

to design language programming retrocomputing ... on 13 August 2006