Tag: programming
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Richard Gabriel is thinking and speaking about Ultra-large Scale, Resilient, Systems. Essential reading.
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Lisp will be 50 in October.
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Vagmi’s Open Letter to Programeter (nice one)
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Fascinating functional languages and silver bullets.
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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.
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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…
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The change in mindset needed for GAE
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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…
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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…
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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…