Early in 2012, Chris Granger - former Program Manager for Microsoft's Visual Studio product, Bay Area resident, and Clojure enthusiast - released a proof of concept video for something he called "LightTable", a radical rethinking of our traditional progr[...]

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Microsoft Small Basic is a minimal implementation of the BASIC language aimed at beginners, with only 14 keywords. A few years back I used Small Basic as an early introduction to programming for my 2 young children (at the time 9 and 5). Small Basic’s l[...]

(You can also look at this post using the great my FPComplete tutorial for this) what is this about? Recently I played a bit with threepenny-gui and soon ran into the situation where I wanted to update a behavior (my … Weiterlesen →

I had an interesting bug in my compiler: The parser would fail on blank lines. To a certain degree, this makes sense; the formal grammar of the language does not include blank lines. This is invalid input! On the other hand, every programming language eve[...]

Many advances in programming language design are driven by some practical motivations. Sometimes, the practical motivations are easy to see - for example, when they come from some external change such as the rise of multi-core processors. Sometimes, disco[...]

If you are in the Seattle area, come by the Microsoft campus February 13 at 7pm for a talk on creating F# iOS apps using Xamarin Studio on Mac.  Details on the group’s meetup page, here: http://www.meetup.com/FSharpSeattle/events/159071122/. For more in[...]

Just under three weeks ago, Amazon announced the public availability of their new Kinesis service, a service which is designed to allow real-time processing of streaming big data. As an experiment I have put together a simple, actor-based customer appende[...]

Small Basic, from Microsoft Dev Labs, is a minimal implementation of BASIC, employing only 14 keywords, aimed at beginners. In the last 2 articles I described building an internal DSL and parser to build an abstract syntax tree (AST) representation of the[...]