I just had a good laugh reading this , so I thought I'd share: Reasons to design a programming language: All current languages are ter...

Fascinosum & Tremendum OMG, first IDEs took programming, now they're trying take programming languages . Really, ditch your IDE. Sto...

May you program in an interesting language.

David Barbour has explored some highly interesting issues over on the C2 wiki, under the title of CompileTimeResolution . (The page is sever...

Faré: What Makes Lisp Great : [U]nlike most other languages, Lisp is not an arbitrary design based on the whims of some author , but it is a...

Everybody seems to agree that we have to get rid of the cons, if for different reasons. Guy Steele proposes an incremental extension, the co...

Another great dissertation just came out, Ryan Culpepper's Refining Syntactic Sugar . Over the past two decades, Scheme macros have evol...

Dave Herman's much-awaited dissertation is out ! Hygienic macro expansion is one of the crown jewels of Scheme, but to this day nobody u...

(I wish someone had written this letter to me years ago.—Ed.) Dear young programming language enthusiast! You are fascinated by programming ...

Over on Charles Nutter's blog , after Charles has listed a number of shortcomings of the JVM for dynlang implementation, a commenter wri...

While Bracha does nothing but diss type systems in his talk on Newspeak , he's actually working on optional type systems (see Gilad is R...

I just watched Gilad Bracha's talk Newspeak: A Principled Dynamic Language , and I find myself disagreeing with most of what he says. Fo...

Via Hack the Planet, Get the Parallelism out of My Cloud . The Intel Atom is described as an inflection point in the paper, since it and sim...

A while ago I read everything I could find about Perl 6. After all, they have a lot of experience in large-scale software development. But, ...

He is definitely hanging around . See Frank is back? On this occasion, I'd like to link to one of the best pieces ever posted to LtU : D...

Quick thought: the next Emacs should probably spawn a new process for each buffer (like Chrome). (This also means that Emacs' buffer-loc...

Ponder that one of the most, if not the most important programming language today, "C", doesn't have a module system. Consider...

Linus is outspoken, profound, and profoundly funny. On message passing as an alternative to shared state (in the context of ISAs): How do y...

I spent yesterday BBQing in the sun with a friend who's deep into term rewriting, and between too many sesame teriyaki skewers, beers, c...

After being able to compile itself, as well as the Boost libraries, used by many C++ programmers, the programmer community was thrilled toda...

ATS rocks the shootout , and now grandmaster Chris Double shows how to achieve remarkable feats using its (dependent and linear) type syste...

It's an oldie, so many of you have probably seen it already: the Dynamic Languages Wizards Series , Spring 2001, hosted by Greg Sullivan...

Quick, what does #()(3).() do? OK, I think one can get used to it . But " support references to ‘this’ " sounds really doomed. A ...