Archive for the ‘Extensible Programming’ Category
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Via Jeff Balogh, a pointer to Hotwire Shell, a free object-oriented hypershell inspired by PowerShell that runs on Linux, and is being ported to Windows and Mac OS X. The principal author seems to be Colin Walters; I'll post more info as I get it.
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
I keep trying to put extensible programming aside, but it just won't let me let go. (Yes, I know, the eighties want their lyrics back...) Most recently, Michael Feathers posted this piece about what he calls structural programming. As he says:
A structural program (or program snippet) is ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Back when I had time to think about extensible programming, I predicted that the most likely route to its realization was some vendor creating a new version of a wholly-owned toolchain. After all, if Microsoft had decided that VB.NET source code would be stored as XML, in a format that ...
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
I've been saying for a couple of years now that Javascript has a good chance of displacing Perl, Python, Ruby, and other scripting languages over the next two or three years: it has all their advantages, plus developers have to learn it to write modern applications. Apple's announcement that third-party ...
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
A Dynamic Languages Symposium will be held in Montreal on October 22 (in conjunction with OOPSLA). I've put my interest in extensible programming on hold to pursue other projects, but I'd still like to attend. Anyone else planning on going?
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
I've been saying for a while now that extensible programming systems are the Next Big Thing, but I wasn't expecting them to arrive this quickly. Check out Expressive Programs Through Presentation Extension, by Eisenberg and Kiczales (at UBC). They use Java plus annotations for storage, rather than XML, which allows ...
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
AntUnit 1.0 has been released; it allows programmers to define test cases inside an Ant build file, and proves that every build system (or anything else with a configuration file) turns into a programming language.
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Thursday, November 9th, 2006
One of the projects I'm contributing to these days is writing a first-year Computer Science textbook using Python. We're using DrProject to manage it: after all, LaTeX files are really just another kind of source code, and what better way to keep track of who's supposed to be doing ...
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Sunday, July 30th, 2006
A couple of years ago, I wrote an article about extensible programming systems, which I believe are the Next Big Thing in programming. I've had a few pings about this recently, so I thought I'd post my current link collection:
The Wikipedia entry (no idea who wrote it)
The Slashdot discussion ...
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Thursday, December 29th, 2005
This article, by Eamonn McManus, is a nice little summary of API design principles. It contains a bit of motherhood and apple pie---nobody would ever set out to make an API difficult to learn or hard to use, for example---but the specifics are good (particularly the discussion of why ...
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