Programming Languages

If it wasn't for the ars-technica newsletter I would have ignored it for maybe yet another day. Sorry if this is no news to you guys. My weekend is once again interrupted. BTW, there are more programming languages in the world than natural languages - living or dead. - Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic

My favorite programming language is Pascal and Basic (you could type commands in all caps and it would work). Lost that commanding caps with the introduction of C and delphi. - TrafficBug

Well, Javascript is the obvious choice, if you want to create dynamic web sites. For cool web apps you should try Ruby (on Rails) or Python (Django). If you have to deal with complex Enterprise applications they're probably Java. - Andreas

I actually want to stay away from Flash because I want to be able to access mobile phones. Thanks for the advice tho:) - Shawn Hickman

"Clue is an ANSI C compiler (C89, some C99) that targets high-level languages such as Lua, Javascript or Perl (and some low-level ones). It supports the entire C language, including pointer arithmetic, and can be used to run arbitrary pure-C programs." - Jillis ter Hove from Bookmarklet

"Programming Paradigms (CS107) introduces several programming languages, including C, Assembly, C++, Concurrent Programming, Scheme, and Python. The class aims to teach students how to write code for each of these individual languages and to understand the programming paradigms behind these languages." - Jillis ter Hove from Bookmarklet

"The Three Projections of Futamura are a sequence of applications of a programming technique called 'partial evaluation' or 'specialisation', each one more mind-bending than the previous one. But it shouldn't be programmers who have all the fun. So I'm going to try to explain the three projections in a way that non-programmers can maybe understand too. But whether you're a programmer or not, this kind of self-referential reasoning can hurt your brain. At least it hurts mine. But it's a good pain, right?" - Jillis ter Hove from Bookmarklet

A very good read! Thanks for sharing. - Stolee

No problem! I enjoyed it as well.. too bad there aren't any good implementations lying around to play with (other than scheme stuff (I find scheme syntax to be annoying at best))... no python, ruby, java or, god forbid, php implementations! :( Too bad because it is a pretty cool idea and has been known for a long time... - Jillis ter Hove

"Nimrod is a new statically typed, imperative programming language, that supports procedural, object oriented, functional and generic programming styles while remaining simple and efficient." - Jillis ter Hove from Bookmarklet

"Here are the slides from my keynote this morning at the SF Erlang Factory conference" - mjc from Bookmarklet

Q: How does computer programming work? A: "Magic." - Yaser Sulaiman

"More" - Michael_techie

Does anybody feel like doing a little #python "personal assistant #IM bot" that interfaces to Jabber/GTalk and Google Calendar for IM'ing calendar entries? I'm only an amateur programmer with some python experience, but I would love to dabble around with this a bit. - w0nk0

Cool Idea. working on a related project, perhaps we should compare notes - Elias

I agree with the premise although the interpretations of the stories are not very deep and serve more as examples. - Robin Barooah

It depends on the mood. - Daniel Schildt