5 pages tagged with "languages"

I've been thinking recently about what the future for scripting languages could look like. We've had a good run with Python, JavaScript, and Ruby for the last few decades. I wondered, what might the next few decades look like. What is the scripting language of the future? How should it work? Here ar… read more

After spending years working in programming languages, helping out with some big-name projects and trying to generally make programmers' lives easier, I've decided something. Programming languages are a failure. Okay okay, before you write this off as a troll for attention, hear me out for a minute … read more

It seems like these days there are lots of programming languages springing up. A combination of the web, parallel programming, and just outright curiosity seems to be fueling creativity towards new mixtures of classic features and experimental new ones. Here are a few new(-ish) projects I'm keeping… read more

I've been spending quite a bit of time recently with Implicit Parallel Programming in pH, which luckily the school library had a copy of. It's quite a good textbook to introduce programmers to functional programming, perhaps even one of the better ones (next to the original Introduction to Function… read more

(or "Minnow, a post-mortem") I've been fortunate to work on both Minnow(a shared-nothing actor-based language) and Chapel(concurrent global-view language). I wanted to give a few thoughts comparing the two approaches. First, when we talk about concurrency or parallelism, without going into… read more