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Recommendations :

http://langnetsymposium.com/talks/Videos/1-05 - Lively Kernel - Dan Ingalls - Sun.wmv

http://langnetsymposium.com/talks/Videos/2-01 - Newspeak - Gilad Braha - Cadence.wmv

http://langnetsymposium.com/talks/Videos/3-08 - Cobra - Chuck Esterbrook.wmv http://langnetsymposium.com/talks/Videos/3-09 - Intentional - Magnus …

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While I talked about being blown away by certain talks at Lang.NET, from a pragmatic standpoint I very much enjoyed the practical talks, such as those given by Harry Pierson and, especially, \<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mmaly/default.aspx"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Martin Maly. Martin …

Like Charles Petzold, my first reaction to Jeff Atwood's question "What Can You Build in 600 Lines of Code?" was along the lines of "5 articles!"

But actually, I think 600 lines is just about the right benchmark size for a language, because it's:

• Small enough to develop in a …

Although concurrency was laid out by Jason Zander as one of the overarching themes of language work moving forward, it was not at all emphasized as a primary concern in any of the talks I saw. There was some talk about language features that a "sufficiently smart compiler" could handle …

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Yesterday I went swimming on a coral reef in 100' visibility with whales singing so loud that I almost expected to see them underwater. For the next 3 days, I'll be in Seattle, where I assume they have this thing I hear about called "heating."

Actually, after canceling the trip …

Haskell is a language that is pretty hard to "just pick up" (especially if you are mostly familiar with mainstream, C-derived languages). Perhaps "Real World Haskell" by Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen will help the language (much beloved in academia) increase in popularity.

When I can shake some time free to actually learn F#, this awesome series of blog posts on "Practical Parsing in F#" is definitely something I'll revisit. Parsing is one of the better tasks for shaking free a large number of concepts about a programming language, since it invariably involves …

The biggest problem with tag-based languages (\<h1>\<% someCode %>\</h1> : the ASPs, the ColdFusions, the PHPs...) is that they facilitate monolithic code. This is related the big criticism of XML and DOMs for data structures, too: they facilitate the creation of hierarchies, not graphs. (As always with programming, the issue is …

Sounds like a great opportunity to hang out with compiler geeks. Since someone's already beaten me to an LOLCode compiler for the DLR, I'll have to put in some work on my other projects: \<a href="http://www.knowing.net/PermaLink%2cguid%2c8dc6782d-9207-4909-bcc4-f5dc7444c6c0.aspx"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Excel …