UNIXy Goodness

I just finished reading a great article on iterators by Andrei Alexandrescu.  Mr. Alexandrescu is a contributor to the D programming language.  In this paper, he discusses the background of iterator implementations including C++ STL iterators, and then goes on to outline a new model for iterators.  It’s very readable, I recommend it.

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1407357

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I’ve been thinking recently about the fact that the average piece of software code includes instructions to the compiler mixed together with instructions that should be executed at runtime.  Type declarations are instructions to the compiler. Most of the general sequential code is instructions that should be executed at runtime.  It occurred to me these are [...]

Tim Bray has been writing his thoughts recently on the topic of the next big language for concurrency.

Let me start by saying I’m completely an arm-chair quarterback here, I’ve never used a functional language for a real project, but I’ve worked in the area of development tools and multi-threaded applications for many years. I’ve watched a [...]

I faithfully scan the tables of contents for IEEE Computer every time it comes out, and every now and then there’s a paper that I find both interesting and well written.  Today I found one called: “Taking Parnas’s Principles to the Next Level: Declarative Language Design” by Daniel E. Cooke and J. Nelson Rushton, at Texas [...]