All blog posts tagged with language

Google's New Programming Language

Posted November 11, 2009

I learned today of Google's new programming language, named "Go". Over the next few days, I will be delving into this interesting looking language (which by outward appearances seems to inherit some of the basic structure and syntax of the C/C++/Java family of languages) and will be giving my opinio…

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Can a Programming Language Be Called Slow?

Posted August 31, 2009

Often I read on blogs and such of how one cannot call a given programming language slow - that's it's the individual implementation of the language or a runtime which is to blame. Here is an example of such a post.

I disagree.

If we look at core language specifications, it become abundantly clear th…

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Understanding by Doing

Posted July 20, 2009

Considering my fondness for language bashing (particularly, when it comes to such little programming gems as Perl, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, Modula-2, Ada, Haskel, CAML to name a few that I think are terrible) I decided that if I'm going to have an opinion of a language, I'd better be able to back …

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