programming language

Improving on his last post about creating a bytecode compiler in PHP, the Sankuru blog has a new post in the series looking at extending the basic compiler to add support for if/while and do while logic.

In this new post to his blog Hartmut Holzgraefe looks at a new effort that wants to be "the next PHP" while still being PHP.

Confused? Take a look at PHPReboot.

The JavaScript alternative is better suited for creating large Web applications, say Google engineers.

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On PHPBuilder.com today there's a new tutorial from Jason Gilmore about building a simple RESTful API with Slim, a microframework for PHP.

Did you know that the first programming language was created 200 years ago, or that most operating systems are based on a 40-year-old language?

Datamation: The Java 7 release brings Oracle together with rivals IBM and HP to evolve what has become the most influential programming language for enterprise deployments.

I don't recall a discussion here on ISO/IEC TR 24772, "Guidance to avoiding vulnerabilities in programming languages through language selection and use." This report describes programming language vulnerabilities in a generic way, and is supported by language specific annexes.

An introduction to this report can be found on page 46 of this issue of the Ada User Journal (how unweb like!).

While PHP remains my primary programming language for various reasons, my recent projects have involved quite a bit of JavaScript development.

And I have to say I like it: the event-driven paradigm is quite elegant, closures are a joy to work with, and tools like Node.js and jQuery really open up the possibilities of the language.

From “Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programming language” by Andrew Vos.

Other words included, too.

@waferbaby calls this graph “the Maggie graph”.

Handle With Linux: "Watch this: a Linux powered baby dinosaur, with a arm processor heart. The robot runs Live OS.

An embedded, linux based operating system which features a custom programming language, giving the possibility to interact with the robot on the programming level"