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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.
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I’m playing with pipelining in Python over on Composing.
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Here’s an interesting question (after reading this). Why does anyone want to write “large” programs? Everyone knows large programs are difficult to build and maintain. Want we want is *small* programs that happen to be powerful (do a lot) and scale over large numbers of users. Is there any reason to think that “large” program…
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Discipulus, patterns for programmers.
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Python on Silverlight? I’m intrigued despite myself.