This is the fifth post of my notes from Emerging Languages Camp last year. If you haven’t seen it already, you might want to read the Introduction to this series. Axiomatic Language Walter Wilson Homepage · Slides · Presentation One of the ways that you can describe a coding style is declarative versus imperative. That is, focusing on the desired result versus [...]

This is the fourth post of my notes from Emerging Languages Camp last year. If you haven’t seen it already, you might want to read the Introduction to this series. Nimrod: A new approach to meta programming Andreas Rumpf Homepage · Slides · Presentation Nimrod’s creator, Andreas Rumpf, describes the language as a statically typed, systems programming language with [...]

This is the third post of my notes from Emerging Languages Camp last year. If you haven’t seen it already, you might want to read the Introduction to this series. Noether: Symmetry in Programming Language Design Daira Hopwood Slides · Presentation I found this presentation to be at once fascinating and frustrating. It was the single best talk at [...]

In this exciting installment of my notes from Emerging Languages Camp last year, some information about the Daimio and Babel programming languages. If you haven’t seen it already, you might want to read the Introduction to this series. Daimio: A Language for Sharing Dann Toliver Homepage · Presentation · Slides Daimio Is a domain-specific language for customization of web [...]

Emerging Languages Camp is an all day event held before Strange Loop. There were 11 presentations on new and unusual programming languages in varying stages of development. Production-ready languages like C#, Ruby, Clojure, and Haskell don’t just spring to life out of nothing. There exists a historical context of major language families (Algol, LISP, ML, etc.) as [...]