A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog
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Damien Katz has more interesting comments about Erlang’s “ugliness”. (hat-tip @Folknology)
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I’ve been wondering what Ward Cunningham’s been up to at Eclipse. Jon Udell is on the case : Interesting tools for software developers. Apparently’s Ward’s now at a wiki-startup. (Mark Dilley seems to be involved too.)
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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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Somehow I feel I should be exploring WikidBase Looks clever … and in Python.
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Here’s a question … why is Erlang so ugly? I don’t mean that in a pejorative way (not much, anyway). I mean, I really love what it does. I’m totally impressed with Erlang’s power and simplicity. I’m writing simulations which are about a quarter of the size of the Python equivalent. So this is not…
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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…
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Towards End-User Programming with Wikis
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Paul Graham’s Arc Challenge . Examples in Lisp, Smalltalk Seaside, Ruby, Perl and Python (using generators instead of continuations) And an Erlang response.
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@adrianh suggests looking more at Parrot Compiler Toolkit … which is very cool. I’m finding that language design is hard. Not just the implementation part (although that’s hard too) … but just figuring out how to make a syntax that allows all the things you’d expect to be done in an elegant way. I’m starting…
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Ian Bicking on what PHP deployment gets right.
Got any book recommendations?