Programming Language Design Links
In comp.lang.misc, Jack Waugh
mentioned a "Language Smiths" email/discussion group
on Yahoo groups.
I read some of the messages there, and connected to a few
related email lists about language design. I joined all three,
but for my tastes, the
"Lambda, the Ultimate" Programming Languages Weblog
and the
MIT Little Languages Workshop's email list
are both better places for presenting language design ideas if you'd
like to see some educated feedback.
Anyway, here are those Yahoo Groups:
-
(Language Smiths) is a discussion group for people writing
their own OO programming languages.
-
(Genesis-dev) is about co-designing a language and IDE
- (MFTL)
stands for "My Favorite Toy Language" and seems to be
a moribund subset of what Lambda does.
For what it's worth, my current favorite "toy" language is Scala.
Only a toy because I can't run it yet -- the current implementation
requires Java 1.4 and Apple
says they won't have that until after Jaguar is released.
My favorite real useful workhorse language these
days is Python.
At work, I've been using Python for doing experiments, creating and
running tests (and studying QMtest); and I've been using a little bit
of scheme (as in Cgen's Guile for describing a new DSP processor) .
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