The latest entry has Joe Armstrong discussing Erlang in the ongoing series of interviews with PL designers (The A-Z of Programming Languages ).
Two related things caught my eye. The first is the obvious truism about language features:
Removing stuff turns out to be painfully difficult.
It's really easy to add features to a language, but almost impossibly difficult to remove things. In the early days we would happily add things to the language and remove them...
Codeception Blog: Introduction to Codeception
On the Codeception blog there's an introduction to the Codeception tool, a behavior-driven framework written in PHP (in the spirit of Behat). How often do you see PHP projects with no line...
PHP 5.4.0 RC4 released - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
The PHP development team is proud to announce the 4th release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours. Windows binaries...
Why We Need More Programming Languages
InfoWorld: "Whenever a new programming language is announced, a certain segment of the developer population always rolls its eyes and groans that we have quite enough to choose from already,...
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