programming paradigms

The Deca programming language is "a language designed to provide the advanced features of sophisticated, high-level programming languages while still programming as close as possible to the bare metal.

It brings in the functional, object-oriented, and generic programming paradigms without requiring a garbage collector or a threading system, so programmers really only pay in performance for the features they use." The latter link provides a list of features that Deca does, will, and won't provide.

I owe Martin Odersky and his team at EPFL an apology: as you can see, I'm posting this rather dramatically late, as the deadline for submission has already passed.

Nevertheless, hopefully the notice of the event itself is still worthwhile.

Sheepishly,
Paul

The First Scala Workshop
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Call for Papers
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Giorgio Sironi has been busy posting a whole series of articles looking at testing PHP applications, some with Zend Framework and others just look at testing in general.

Here's a list of the current articles:

Roy, Peter van (2009). Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know.

In G. Assayag and A. Gerzso (eds.) New Computational Paradigms for Computer Music, IRCAM/Delatour, France.