Great response to Ask HN: Do you use more than one programming language? Not only do I use multiple languages professionally, I don't kn...

Excellent article by Bryan Cantrill, Concurrency’s Shysters : [C]oncurrency is still being used to instill panic in the uninformed. This tim...

Ian Lance Taylor is working on split stacks . This will permit the stacks of gccgo goroutines, which are mapped to native threads, to start...

Efficient Method Dispatch in PCL by Gregor J. Kiczales and Luis H. Rodriguez Jr. is an all-out awesome yet compact paper about generic func...

I think the use of color in syntax is very interesting. I first heard of this idea in ColorForth . Sorting in ColorForth . Piet is awesome ...

total blank lines w/ nb, nc semi- preproc. file lines lines comments lines colons direct. --------+--------+--------+---...

Guess what's a goal for C# 5.0? Tadaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.... Compiler as a service . Which is code for eval . Anders Hejlsberg shows it off in ...

Cardelli and Wegner's On Understanding Types, Data Abstraction, and Polymorphism from 1985 is a treat . No wonder it has more than 2000...

One thing I've learned, now that I'm working on my third attempt at implementing an Acceptable Lisp™ (after an abandoned project yea...

In English, mental refers both to things involving the mind in general, as well as crazy in particular. I propose to use the word semantic ...

Outlining! 2D forms! App Inventor for Android is based on OpenBlocks , which looks very much like Scratch, but uses Kawa instead of Squeak....

Nice and thought-provoking comment from one markt on LtU : One of the things that stands out to me about APL, and CS in general is the pure...

(Sorry for this stupid post, I'll get back to the topic at another time.)

Complaining about parentheses in Lisp is like complaining about the heat in the kitchen—as Jamie Oliver said, the cocktail of hot oil, shar...

I just skimmed the C# 4.0 specification , and I'm quite fascinated by it. The spec itself is extremely well-written and readable, as fa...

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...