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...
What do Interpreted Programming Languages have in...
A Million Chimpanzees: "In our last episode (sorry, couldn't resist), we left off with Arrays and Booleans. The tutorial picks up with methods of flow control."
Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
Christopher Kelty's book, Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software, can be read online, and I think parts of it will interest many here. It seems that programming languages, while...
New Microsoft patent may put Linux security...
The H Open: "Microsoft has been granted a patent on a privilege escalation system which appears to cover the functionality of PolicyKit, which is used for fine grain authorisation on Ubuntu,...
SanDisk SDMSM2-008G-A11M 8GB M2 Memory Stick Micro...
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Linksys WRT610N Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless...
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