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Tag Archives: programming
Lisp will be 50 in October.
Vagmi’s Open Letter to Programeter (nice one)
Fascinating functional languages and silver bullets.
Tim Burks talks about his language Nu (seems to be kind of Ruby-like behaviour with a Lisplike appearance (lack of syntax?) Good references to Brad Cox‘s Planning the Software Industrial Revolution. Cool. Didn’t know this stuff before.
Loads of nice stuff going on in Squeakland. Showing Seaside demos to a colleague this week made me wonder whether I need to dive back in. It’s been a long time (15 years) since I wrote any Smalltalk. And what with Python, Erlang, GeekWeaver + some C, PHP, Javascript; and Cache ObjectScript (don’t ask!) in …
The change in mindset needed for GAE
Sometimes you need to take a step back from a problem, to see the forest for the trees. GeekWeaver was being held up by something that seemed a rather complicated knot; one that I’ve wrestled with a number of times but never really untangled to my satisfaction. So last night I decided to restart with …
I’m way too busy now … but I’m having some kicking ideas about my own grandiose bid to improve programming … … think GeekWeaver in an SdiDesk-alike editor (obviously). Then imagine that everything is a template. That’s the way that GeekWeaver is already going. Everything is a template (ie. has named slots that can be …
And I thought I was ambitious, trying to write a programming language! My friend Oli has decided to reinvent programming as we know it. Details are still trickling out via his web-site : Semantic Programming. And I’m in frenzied skype conversation with him, trying to figure out what it’s all about. In outline, it starts …