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The Better Parts
Douglas Crockford discusses how to use programming languages more effectively; reviews the good parts in EcmaScript 6 and JSON.
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Evolving Java
Brian Goetz describes the future directions for the Java language, especially changes introduced in Java 8, and details the approach taken for key language evolution choices.
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How to Teach Your Kid to Code with Hopscotch
Samantha John explains the design considerations for creating a visual language for children and demoes Hopscotch, presenting techniques and sample projects for teaching kids to code.
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Finding a Way Out
Chris Granger attempts to imagine what programming would look like if it was created today.
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The J Programming Language
Tracy Harms introduces the J Language and the patterns of thinking that make it possible.
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Qbrt Bytecode: Interface Between Code and Execution
Qbrt aspires to allow language designers to focus on the human interface of programming languages by abstracting the implementation of complex runtime features behind a clean,simple bytecode interface
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Daimio: a Language for Sharing
Dann Toliver introduces Daimio, a new language for sharing functionality in safe and friendly ways, exploring its internals and how to work with and extend it.
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Onward! — Does Thought Crime Pay?
Gilad Bracha ponders how Lisp, Simula, Actors, Beta, Smalltalk and Self give us C++, Java, Javascript, Perl, Python and PHP, speculating what new wonders await programmers down the road.
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Dao Programming Language for Scripting and Computing
Limin Fu introduces Dao, a lightweight and optionally typed programming language having a LLVM-based JIT compiler optimized for numeric computation, and a Clang-based tool generating C/C++ bindings.
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PHP, Seriously!
Keith Adams examines the strengths that made PHP a dominant language in its niche, highlighting Facebook's attempts at remedying its inconsistencies and misfeatures while maintaining its strengths.
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Dart for the Language Enthusiast
Bob Nystrom attempts to demonstrate that Dart is not boring, covering laziness, higher-order functions, asynchronicity, abstractions and others.
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Dancing with Symmetry to Harness the Power of Complexity: Subjective Programming in Context
The authors introduce a new language paradigm meant to enhance OOP with multi-dimensional context, providing details on context-based dispatch, and showing a glimpse of their early prototype.