Monthly Archives: September 2009

Meijer throws down!

Posted on September 23, 2009 by aaron

Okay, not really. Saw this latest on LtU, regarding the recent JVM conference.  Erik Meijer was talking his recent work on the .Net Reactive Framework, and had this to say in passing: And of course you say, “Erik, [why] are … Continue reading →

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Programming Language Popularity

Posted on September 7, 2009 by aaron

Some interesting metrics of programming language popularity. LangPop.com – statistics on greping search queries on various web properties — usage in open source projects, books published on Amazon.com, etc. TIOBE index – similar listing, of search engine results exclusively.  Longer … Continue reading →

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Continuation Patterns

Posted on September 4, 2009 by aaron

Interesting paper on the topic of various program patterns implemented in coroutine.  As mentioned in a previous post, continuations are a powerful control flow primitive — they can be used for: Call with Current Continuation Patterns, Ferguson & Deugo Escaping … Continue reading →

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