Chris Double is again exploring ATS , a language with a very advanced type system: ATS did save me from some errors in my larger program tha...

This is CPython, the standard Python implementation, compiled from C to JavaScript using Emscripten, running in your browser (without any p...

Harrison Ainsworth's Wittgenstein for programmers is an awesome project. And very quotable: Where a proposition describes the world, a ...

Programs really aren't plain text. Or they shouldn't be. But until now there was no way out. OSes come with Ed, and Ed is the stand...

Vladimir Sedach just tweeted something dear to my heart: Arguing that the #GPL is restricting your freedom is exactly the same as arguing t...

I remember reading an article about RMS some time ago, where he says that a module system/namespace management for Emacs Lisp is not somethi...

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I've blogged about this before, but I think it's worth stressing again: Programming languages should not be viewed as media , but a...

It's hard to keep source code "beautiful". I think the only way it can work is to be dedicated like Zen monks cleaning their m...

Ian Lance Taylor, the author of the gold linker and the GCC version of the Go language, has written a nice mini-series on how to unwind the ...

Lisp is the worst programming language, except all the others that have been tried.

Some years ago I was in a state that I now discover in many other people on the web, and which I term "PL anxiety". It is characte...

I often like to make snide remarks at Python and Ruby, because ... well, because they're not Lisp. To offset this a bit I'd like to ...

2013 Update: I was young and stupid when I wrote this. I fear that Haskell is doomed to succeed. — Tony Hoare I ♥ Lisp. I think it...

Great discussion over on LtU: The AST Typing Problem : So to summarize, my basic argument is that the separation into distinct IRs may not...

``Horsey Horseless'' While I don't like the tone of my earlier post, No more "minimal early Lisps", pulleezz , I stand...

Although I'm not sure I get most of them - Tim Chevalier's Quotations File : [Satanism and Wicca] are to world religions what JavaSc...

JSON will be the default format for new internet APIs. As more people use JSON, we'll see a XML renaissance , as we - for the first ...

From Dieter Rams, ten principles for good design . HXA just published A comment adding to Dijkstra on natural language programming : Softwar...

Giles Thomas commenting on A Guide to GIT using spatial analogies : A much simpler view IMO is to consider the Git repositories as narrati...

You can clearly see the handshake, slow-start ramp-up and full bandwidth phases. Packet Flight: HTTP request @ 40X from Carlos Bueno on Vi...

Here is our latest minicluster design. (Ron Minnich on 9fans (hat tip to Chris )) Plan 9 is in the works. This is a nice test and developme...

> Should this kind of thing be done in user space? Almost certainly not. First off, user-space is a fragmented mess. Just from a "le...