At the recent DSL DevCon, Martin Fowler gave an excellent keynote speech discussing domain-specific languages, an important subject that seems certain to be the buzzword of the next year or two.
However, one slide of his got my goat, leading me to foam at the mouth, beat the table with …
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more ... import sys import clr sys.path.append("c:\\program files\\Microsoft Research\\Infer.NET 2.2\\bin\\debug") clr.AddReferenceToFile("Infer.Compiler.dll") clr.AddReferenceToFile("Infer.Runtime.dll") from MicrosoftResearch.Infer import * from MicrosoftResearch.Infer.Models import * from MicrosoftResearch.Infer.Distributions import * firstCoin = Variable[bool].Bernoulli(0.5) secondCoin = Variable …Some d00d named Leppie has written a \<a href="http://xacc.wordpress.com/"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lisp for the DLR [via Jason Bock]
more ...Silverlight steadfastly refuses to install on my development Tablet PC or in my "Orcas Beta" Virtual PC. Those are the only two machines on which I'll put an under-development CLR, since experience has shown that it can be very difficult to cleanly uninstall anything in Microsoft's browser-CLR-plugin axis. This is …
more ...Via Rob Connery Interviewed by Miguel de Icaza, I took a quick look at SubSonic, which appears to be a good solution in the ASP.NET world for very rapidly generating Create-Retrieve-Update-Delete functionality pages that honor database foreign keys.
One of the dazzlers in the Ruby world is a library …
more ...The source code to the Microsoft.Scripting namespace is available at http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=438
A review of the IronPython codebase in the release makes the early-stage processing look pretty close to the (well-designed) IronPython 1.0 release: there's a language-specific tokenizer, parser, AST …
more ...That Microsoft was going to increase support for dynamic languages is no surprise: they've been talking about that since (at least) PDC '03 and various hires and initiatives have clearly been in the works. I haven't seen the DLR yet, but my big question is: what version / runtime / patch level …
more ...Scott Guthrie just announced IronRuby! Yeehaw!!!!!!
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Silverlight binding; demoing on Mac
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Dynamic Language Runtime announced
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"Shipping later this week" (I'm sure he means shipping a beta / CTP)
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Uses Ruby naming scheme when programming .NET libraries (weird. Not sure I like that.)
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"Switch the console into Python mode, Ruby mode, VB …
more ...Naysawn has announced that the Visual Studio unit testing framework (MSTest) is moving into the Pro SKU of Visual Studio. That's a good start, but I want to lobby for going the whole way:
Please move the unit testing framework into the .NET framework.
Source: MSTest Moving to VS Pro …
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