Tag: programming languages
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Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language
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.
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Nathan's University (Update)
Just to note, I think this course is pretty good : http://nathansuniversity.com/pl101.html
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Make Your Own Programming Language
Nathan’s University offers an online course. I’ve signed up.
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Bret Victor's Code / Drawing IDE
Excellent video I’ll have more to say and think about this.
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RIP John McCarthy
John McCarthy has died. Discussion on Lambda the Ultimate.
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RIP Dennis Ritchie
Forget Steve Jobs, the guy who invented C has died!
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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…
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Lunascript looks very interesting.
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Why Programming Languages?