Logo programs are usually collections of small procedures. Generally, procedures are defined by writing them in a text editor. The special word to is followed by the name of the procedure. Subsequent lines form the procedure definition. The word end … Read more
When I started programming, my whole day revolved around development. I’d wake up, write code, and go to sleep. And that’s how it was day in and day out. My entire social circle consisted of people who also wrote code. … Read more
If you programmed PCs in the late 90s, you probably remember the ‘Intel Inside Pentium with MMX’ stickers. MMX was, of course, a big marketing buzzword, but it was also Intel’s major attempt at bringing SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) … Read more
Eat Your Greens (EYG) is a statically typed functional programming language. It is a better programming language, for some measure of better. This post explains what I consider to be better and which features that requires adding or removing from … Read more
Why care about programming languages Why care about programming languages July 22, 2026 by Eduardo Bellani In the age of AI-assisted coding, it’s easy to feel that deep knowledge of programming languages has become obsolete. Why spend years mastering language … Read more
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. –Aristotle Onassis The coding agents revolution is taking the world by storm and we are right in the middle … Read more
A little while ago, we considered how the cover of the book C++: The Programming Language raises questions not answered by the cover, since the cover illustration for a book putatively about the C++ programming language shows code written in … Read more
The Ü programming language Ü is a statically-typed compiled programming language, designed for writing programs, which should be both reliable and fast. It has safe and unsafe code separation, compile-time correctness checks, powerful abstractions like RAII and templates, encapsulation, rich … Read more
Sorry Peter. — I’m at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there’s always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy … Read more
Vera (v-ERR-a) is a programming language designed for large language models to write. The name comes from the Latin veritas (truth). Programs compile to WebAssembly and run at the command line or in the browser. @Int) requires(@Int.1 != 0) ensures(@Int.result … Read more