This is a short followup to my post on Java’s decline. One of the issues brought up in the comments is that Java as a platform potentially has more staying power than Java the programming language. The JVM is a solid foundation for building languages on, so the argument goes, and a new language […]

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There is a good article running over at SD Times titled “Study Predicts Upswing In Dynamic Language Use” (hat tip to James Robertson). Given how hot dynamic languages are right now I don’t think it would take Nostradamus to predict an upswing in use. The Forrester study mentioned in the article did have a few […]

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Matt and I were discussing domain-specific languages the other day and no discussion of DSLs is complete without mentioning Lisp macros. After I explained how macros work in Lisp Matt said something along the lines of “Huh, that sounds cool but I am not sure how I would use it.”

This is what Paul Graham called […]

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