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Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Eric S. Raymond, one of open-source's founders, famously said, "Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch." That was certainly the case with Graydon Hoare, a Mozilla software developer, when he started work on the Rust programming language. In 2006, Hoare was annoyed with his apartment building's elevator that kept breaking down. As he later said, "It's ridiculous that we computer people couldn't even make an elevator that works w
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The Java programming language turns 30 next week (May 23). The high-level, general-purpose, memory-safe, object-oriented programming language that continues to power systems of all sizes today wouldn’t be here if not for its primary creator, James Gosling. I’ve had the privilege of interviewing and getting to know the man a little bit over the years, ever since Java’s premise of enabling programmers to write once, run anywhere revolutionized software development. James Gosling’s journey from r
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The Java programming language turns 30 next week (May 23). The high-level, general-purpose, memory-safe, object-oriented programming language that continues to power systems of all sizes today wouldn’t be here if not for its primary creator, James Gosling. I’ve had the privilege of interviewing and getting to know the man a little bit over the years, ever since Java’s premise of enabling programmers to write once, run anywhere revolutionized software development. James Gosling’s journey from r
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Here’s my conclusions about the Snobol4 language itself, which get their own pages: In short, I think Snobol is fascinating. The singular focus on pattern matching kind of reminds me of Awk. Except Awk doesn’t do nearly as much with patterns, it devolves into a C-like script to do things with pattern matches. Snobol uses no such crutches, just pattern matching statements for all logic and control flow. Its purity is impressive. No kidding: Every single line in a Snobol program consists of five
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Keep up to date with the latest news, best practice ideas and exclusive offers. Don’t miss out. Sign up here. Welcome to the first chapter of the “Elixir, 7 Steps to Start Your Journey” series. In my previous post, I discussed my journey with the programming language. In this chapter, we will discuss the Erlang Virtual Machine, the BEAM. To understand why the Elixir programming language is so powerful and reliable, we must understand its foundations, which means talking about Erlang. Elixir
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Leaving Google I’ve left Google after working there for 19 years. For most of that time I’ve been fortunate in being able to work on the Go programming language. Go was started by Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, and Robert Griesemer in the fall of 2007. I joined the team in June, 2008, about the same time as Russ Cox. I’ve been very lucky to be able to work with such remarkable people on such an interesting project. I am astonished at how much use Go has gotten over the years. Go has reached the stat
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Odin is a general-purpose systems programming language authored by Bill “gingerBill” Hall. Designed as a modern alternative to C, Odin emphasizes simplicity, performance, and readability without sacrificing control over low-level details. The website says it’s “data-oriented”, and features such as SOA (structs-of-arrays) and implicit zero initialization tie into that. Despite this focus, the language surprisingly has dynamic maps and arrays built into the language itself. While the memory is st
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When you think of learning another language, you probably think of French, Spanish, or Chinese. But what about Python or Java? The two processes might be more similar than you'd think. A recent study published from researchers at the University of Washington showed that language ability and problem solving skills best predict how quickly people learn Python, a popular programming language. Their research, published in Scientific Reports, used behavioral tests and measures of brain activity to s
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When you think of learning another language, you probably think of French, Spanish, or Chinese. But what about Python or Java? The two processes might be more similar than you'd think. A recent study published from researchers at the University of Washington showed that language ability and problem solving skills best predict how quickly people learn Python, a popular programming language. Their research, published in Scientific Reports, used behavioral tests and measures of brain activity to s
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maciek905/Getty Images I've been around technology long enough that very little excites me, and even less surprises me. But shortly after OpenAI's ChatGPT was released, I asked it to write a WordPress plugin for my wife's e-commerce site. When it did, and the plugin worked, I was indeed surprised. That was the beginning of my deep exploration into chatbots and AI-assisted programming. Since then, I've subjected 14 large language models (LLMs) to four real-world tests. Also: I tested 10 AI con
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How to program a text adventure in C by Ruud Helderman <[email protected]> Licensed under MIT License 1. Introduction This is not a C tutorial; there are plenty of those on the web. The reader is assumed to have some basic knowledge of programming in general, and preferrably the C programming language in particular. Maybe you just finished reading a tutorial somewhere, and you would like to learn some more about programming by studying other people’s source code. Or could it be that you
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I've been exploring the m8 Dirtywave tracker for a few months now, and it's been a fascinating experience. If you're not familiar with it, the m8 is a portable music sequencer built on the Teensy platform that combines a minimal 8-button interface with a powerful tabular workflow. What makes it special isn't just its portability or its sound capabilities, but how the hardware and interface work together to create an experience that's simultaneously constrained and liberating. When I'm making mu
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Z Lem Loglan'82 is a programming language conceived for object and distributed programming. It has many features that make Loglan'82 a tool surpassing other programming languages: It enjoys a unique safe and efficient system of managing objects, see Safe dealocation, It offers modules of classes ( class ), moreover it allows to declare modules of cooperating objects i.e. coroutines and modules of threads ( process ). One can create not only objects of classes, but also objects of coroutines
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After inventing calculus, actuarial tables, and the mechanical calculator and coining the phrase “best of all possible worlds,” Gottfried Leibniz still felt his life’s work was incomplete. Since boyhood, the 17th-century polymath had dreamed of creating what he called a characteristica universalis—a language that perfectly represented all scientific truths and would render making new discoveries as easy as writing grammatically correct sentences. This “alphabet of human thought” would leave no r
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As many others observe as well, one of the major reasons to write is to firm up ideas in one’s own head. Serializing an idea out into English words is still no guarantee one understands it deeply, but it is great progress over a very fuzzy idea that has never been fleshed out at all. I’ve known for a long time I wanted to sit down and write this out. But I had no idea how many principles I’ve either drawn out from my times with functional languages, or had sharpened by them forcing me on to cer
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After inventing calculus, actuarial tables, and the mechanical calculator and coining the phrase “best of all possible worlds,” Gottfried Leibniz still felt his life’s work was incomplete. Since boyhood, the 17th-century polymath had dreamed of creating what he called a characteristica universalis—a language that perfectly represented all scientific truths and would render making new discoveries as easy as writing grammatically correct sentences. This “alphabet of human thought” would leave no r
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photo_Pawel/Getty Images We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming-language popularity based on job listings. This article fostered conversation, including debates about whether the languages IEEE used in its survey were even languages. Most of us are familiar with polls and poll results, especially during campaign seasons. Unfortunately, polls have long been proven to be far from accurate. Some polls have a natural bias for one party or the other (not for nefarious rea
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There’s been a lot of buzz about GUI stuff lately, which made me briefly reflect on the state of the art and share something I’ve been working on as of late. What's this? Read on, it's a bit of a story... It seems folks really feel the pain of their ever-expanding tech stacks, multiplied by an explosion of display form factors and related tech such as accessibility. People are coming up with new ways of the GUI (PanGui, Dear ImGui, etc.), which is very exciting and encouraging in itself. Are w
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The big picture: The future of computer programming is facing a seismic shift driven by advances in artificial intelligence. Industry leaders have contrasting perspectives on how AI will reshape software development, with predictions ranging from transformative to cautious. One Microsoft executive has a more optimistic outlook, forecasting AI's dominance in coding within the next five years. Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott predicted that 95 percent of programming code will be AI-generated by 2030. Ho
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The big picture: The future of computer programming is facing a seismic shift driven by advances in artificial intelligence. Industry leaders have contrasting perspectives on how AI will reshape software development, with predictions ranging from transformative to cautious. One Microsoft executive has a more optimistic outlook, forecasting AI's dominance in coding within the next five years. Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott predicted that 95 percent of programming code will be AI-generated by 2030. Ho
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On the foolishness of "natural language programming" . Since the early days of automatic computing we have had people that have felt it as a shortcoming that programming required the care and accuracy that is characteristic for the use of any formal symbolism. They blamed the mechanical slave for its strict obedience with which it carried out its given instructions, even if a moment's thought would have revealed that those instructions contained an obvious mistake. "But a moment is a long time,
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If someone had told me a few months ago I’d be playing with .NET again after a 15+ years hiatus I probably would have laughed at this. Early on in my career I played with .NET and Java, and even though .NET had done some things better than Java (as it had the opportunity to learn from some early Java mistakes), I quickly settled on Java as it was a truly portable environment. I guess everyone who reads my blog knows that in the past few years I’ve been playing on and off with OCaml and I think
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Will AI Fully Eat Programming Jobs One Day? Almost every coder we surveyed had strong opinions on the matter. Here’s ChatGPT’s summary of the responses (with its boldface emphasis preserved): “The coders have spoken—and they’re not packing up their keyboards just yet. While a small but vocal group insists AI will devour programming jobs in time, most dismiss full automation as a pipe dream. The doom prophets warn that corporate bosses will slash payrolls the moment AI looks capable, leaving hu
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There is a common metaphor for hyperspace travel in science fiction, where some scientist type explains how the FTL works by taking a piece of paper, drawing a line on it to demonstrate “normal” travel, then folding the paper to bring the origin and destination together. Imperative code affords straight line approaches to problem. I have some code. It does 73 things. I need it to do a 74th thing, in the middle of one of the things it currently does, which is itself a complicated mixture of the
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Sketch-Programming: A Minimalist Paradigm for Code Design (LLM transpiler) Ideas, concepts, tools and examples of sketch programming using LLM Overview Sketch-programming (or simply "Sketch") is a revolutionary approach to writing software that prioritizes simplicity, readability, and expressiveness. Unlike traditional programming languages or frameworks, Sketch is not a specific language but a meta-programming paradigm—a set of principles, conventions, and syntax patterns designed to abstrac
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On the State of Coherence in the Land of Type Classes Dimi Racordon , Eugene Flesselle , and Cao Nguyen Pham The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming, 2025, Vol. 10, Issue 1, Article 15 Submission date: 2024-10-01 Publication date: 2025-02-15 DOI: https://doi.org/10.22152/programming-journal.org/2025/10/15 Full text: PDF Abstract Type classes are a popular tool for implementing generic algorithms and data structures without loss of efficiency, bridging the gap between parametric
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How do we tell truths that might hurt? Edsger W.Dijkstra, 18 June 1975 from https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd04xx/EWD498.PDF Sometimes we discover unpleasant truths. Whenever we do so, we are in difficulties: suppressing them is scientifically dishonest, so we must tell them, but telling them, however, will fire back on us. If the truths are sufficiently impalatable, our audience is psychically incapable of accepting them and we will be written off as totally unrealistic, hopelessly idea
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Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? Ruminations on the Psychology and Aesthetics of Coding By Charles Petzold A Talk Delivered at the NYC .NET Developer’s Group, October 20, 2005 Abstract: Visual Studio can be one of the programmer's best friends, but over the years it has become increasingly pushy, domineering, and suffering from unsettling control issues. Should we just surrender to Visual Studio's insistence on writing our code for us? Or is Visual Studio sapping our programming intelligenc
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Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? Ruminations on the Psychology and Aesthetics of Coding By Charles Petzold A Talk Delivered at the NYC .NET Developer’s Group, October 20, 2005 Abstract: Visual Studio can be one of the programmer's best friends, but over the years it has become increasingly pushy, domineering, and suffering from unsettling control issues. Should we just surrender to Visual Studio's insistence on writing our code for us? Or is Visual Studio sapping our programming intelligenc
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Less popular or less commonly used ones. By that, I mean, not including the usual suspects, such as C, C++, Rust and Go (I know the controversy about the last one being a systems programming language or not). I'm asking this because I used C for both application programming and systems programming, early in my career, before I moved to using other languages such as Java and Python. And of late, I've been wanting to get back to doing some systems programming, but preferably in a more modern la
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