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Language usage in Google’s ngram viewer
I thought I would join the fun that people are having with Google’s new ngram viewer. The raw data (only a subset for bigrams and longer ngrams) was also enticing, but at 35+ gigabytes for the...
View ArticleFebruary 2012 news in the programming language standard’s world
Yesterday I was at the British Standards Institute for a meeting of the programming languages committee. Some highlights and commentary: The first Technical Corrigendum (bug fixes, 47 of them) for...
View ArticleActively maintained production compilers for middle-age languages
The owners of the Borland C++ compiler have stopped maintaining it. So we are now down to, by my counting, three four different production quality C++ compilers still being actively maintained (Visual...
View ArticleLisp and functional languages discourage free riders
While many developers have a favorite programming language, there are a few who believe they have found the One True Language and refuse to even consider coding in another language. Why is the One True...
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