This is a great essay on what’s wrong with Pascal. But really, it’s a great essay on what are some of the nice touches of C that makes it such a good language.
Tag Archives: programming languages
Dog : A Social Language
Dog seems to be a little language for writing social software. Initial thoughts : Big question is what it compiles to. It’s about time we had a programming language that compiles a single program down to parts that run on both server and clients, in a really easy and transparent way. Building in knowledge of protocols …
Nathan's University (Update)
Just to note, I think this course is pretty good : http://nathansuniversity.com/pl101.html
Make Your Own Programming Language
Nathan’s University offers an online course. I’ve signed up.
Bret Victor's Code / Drawing IDE
Excellent video I’ll have more to say and think about this.
RIP John McCarthy
John McCarthy has died. Discussion on Lambda the Ultimate.
RIP Dennis Ritchie
Forget Steve Jobs, the guy who invented C has died!
Google's Dart
So Google’s Javascript replacement language, Dart goes public. Looks awfully like Java with a smattering of CoffeeScript. I like the empty compact constructor and the one-liner functions. But I’m not sure what those colon ones are doing. Presumably some jQuery-like action with the document.query(). Looks a little bit messy, but then Javascript has got kind …
Lunascript looks very interesting.
Why Programming Languages?