In his History of Python: Introduction and Overview, Guido van Rossum repeats the confusion between “scripting” and “dynamic” languages:
Python is currently one of the most popular dynamic programming languages, along with Perl, Tcl, PHP, and newcomer Ruby. Although it is often viewed as a “scripting” language, it is really a general purpose programming language along […]
How to Design Worlds: Imaginative Programming in DrScheme -
binghe.lisp - Symbolics Lisp Machine Documents -
Dorophone: Struquine: A Useful Lisp Trick - I don’t think I like the name “struquine”, but I really like languages were the written representation of a value is the same as the one necessary to create the value when […]
Newspeak - The first site for Gilad Bracha’s new Smalltalk-style language, which will be released with code soon.
What is a reflow? « DougT?s Blog - Videos of a browser engine reflowing a page, really cool.
Dark Roasted Blend: Drunk Builders & Mad Architects -
Utu: stackish - Interesting data language inpired by Forth, can encode XML and s-expressions and it’s simple and fast to parse.
Inheritance is evil, and must be destroyed: part 1 - Substitute is-a relationships with has-a, recommends the author. I think that to really enable this, something like Scala’s inner classes is needed.
Huemul - “Huemul is […]
Misperceptions meet state of the art in evolution research: Page 1 - A great summary of where evolution research is at right now.
Dr Nic » Zero Sign On - 1 better or Infinitely better than Single Sign On? - Using client certificates to implement zero sign on.
Hydra VM 1.0 - “This is release 1.0 of […]