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 you making a big deal? Category s–t like that. The design pattern book fifty years …
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Programming Language Popularity
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 tail listing, and shows trending. Happiest users – this one is just a static blog …
Continuation Patterns
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 recursive procedures and loops Reentry into recursion Coroutines Backtracking Simulating multitasking The paper covers these …