Languages

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/13

Can't stand your tiny 30-inch, panoramic monitor?  Why not upgrade with the single-slot Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 graphics card?  It drives eight monitors, each...

0 replies - 2529 views - 11/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Wake Me Up Before Google's Go Goes

Itching to try a new programming language?  Google has you covered.  They just released an open source, experimental language called "Go".  Google...

0 replies - 2193 views - 11/11/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/7

The project manager of Jython announced he is quitting his job at Sun.  Frank Wierzbicki helped design Jython, the Java implementation of Python, for five...

0 replies - 2807 views - 11/07/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/6

After being criticized for selling Facebook fans and Twitter followers, uSocial says it has started selling YouTube viewers as well.  uSocial says companies...

0 replies - 2399 views - 11/06/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

ScalaTest 1.0 Release "A Path Forward" to Scala

Scala has made a name for itself recently with the announcement in April that Twitter was in the process of converting their back-end from Ruby to Scala.  The...

0 replies - 2842 views - 10/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

An Introduction to Functional Languages: Part Two

Previously we gave an introduction to functional languages. Now we take a look at some functional programming examples with F#.

4 replies - 5027 views - 06/30/09 by Ken Sipe in Articles

An Introduction to Functional Languages

There has been explosion of software development languages in recent years. Chief among these languages or programming approaches is functional programming. ...

10 replies - 9209 views - 06/25/09 by Ken Sipe in Articles

The New Era of Programming Languages

Burton Group has just published the overview I authored titled  The New Era of Programming Languages. This is a timely document. The Tiobe Programming Index...

0 replies - 8411 views - 06/18/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

The Ioke reflector

Ioke is a very object oriented language. The amount of concepts in it is also quite small. I’ve tried to factor the implementation into smaller pieces, which...

0 replies - 1105 views - 05/08/09 by olabini in News

Objects as Actors?

Tony Arcieri, creator of Reia, recently brought up an interesting topic on unifying actors and objects. Talking about Scala and his disliking towards Scala's...

2 replies - 4082 views - 04/13/09 by Debasish Ghosh in News

Why functional programming doesn't catch on

Authorities in the field of software engineering have long lamented the fact that functional programming (FP) doesn't seem to catch on. Their sympathizers...

8 replies - 8624 views - 02/26/09 by Confusion09 in News

Q&A - Nathaniel Talbott on Ruby and the Well-Rounded Programmer

In this exclusive interview, Agile Coach Jared Richardson talks to Ruby veteran Nathaniel Talbott about his current projects, the Ruby community, and more. ...

0 replies - 1410 views - 02/02/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

2009 Predictions, 2008 Predictions Revisited

It's once again that time of year, and in keeping with my tradition, I'll revisit the 2008 predictions to see how close I came before I start waxing prophetic...

7 replies - 9322 views - 01/02/09 by Ted Neward in Articles

Ioke dynamic reception

Ioke will, just as most other dynamic languages, have a way to achieve what Martin Fowler calls Dynamic Reception. For you who are not familiar with this term,...

0 replies - 838 views - 11/10/08 by olabini in Articles