21 Nov 2021, 14:43 TL;DR Melrōse is both a language and a tool to create and listen to music interactively, The language uses musical primitives (note, sequence, chord) and many functions (map, group, transpose) that can be used to create … Read more
On December 20, 2021 I read an interesting paper from CSPI written by Leif Rasmussen. My main takeaway was that among National Science Foundation grant award abstracts there is what Rasmussen calls “Constriction of the space of ideas.” In other … Read more
The idea is to improve the SQL language, specifically the join syntax, for the special but common case when joining on foreign key columns. The problem Example below taken from PostgreSQL documentation 1 In SQL-89, we didn’t have any JOIN … Read more
Introduction Overview Io is a dynamic prototype-based programming language. The ideas in Io are mostly inspired by Smalltalk[1] (all values are objects), Self[2] (prototype-based), NewtonScript[3] (differential inheritance), Act1[4] (actors and futures for concurrency), Lisp[5] (code is a runtime inspectable / … Read more
A few years ago, a bunch of software engineers got really frustrated with the state of the Internet of Things (IoT). Armed with plenty of experience from having built the V8 JavaScript engine and the Dart language for Flutter at … Read more
In Chinese, the word computer translates directly as electric brain. In Icelandic, a compass is a direction-shower, and a microscope a small-watcher. In Lakota, horse is literally dog of wonder. These neologisms demonstrate the cumulative quality of language, in which … Read more
Last updated on 2021/10/12 to include changes up to JDK 17. This article is also available in Chinese by Alex Tan. When Java 8 introduced Streams and Lambdas it was a big change, enabling functional programming style to be expressed … Read more
Data Validation Validate text-based data files or programmatic data such as incoming RPCs or database documents. Read more … Configuration Just add validation to existing data (CUE, YAML, JSON), reduce boilerplate in large-scale configurations, or both. Read more … Schema … Read more
A Tour of the Oil Language source | all docs for | all versions | oilshell.org This document describes the Oil language from clean slate perspective. We don’t assume you know Unix shell or the compatible OSH language, but shell … Read more
Brian Robert Callahan academic, developer, with an eye towards a brighter techno-social life [prev] [next] 2021-09-11I got the J language working on OpenBSD Yes, I am aware that I am interrupting our self-hosting PL/0 compiler series but I think it … Read more