Archive for May, 2010

Language

Why has nobody made a new language on the AVM2 (other than haXe)? It’s a bold statement, but seriously why not? Someone could have implemented a functional type language similar to scala or dynamic language like groovy, which sits on the JVM? It does raise questions why nobody has thought about this before or have [...]

Interruption

I know I’ve supposed to have written about Unit testing (part 3), it’s in draft and needs amending, but in the mean time I’ve been thinking about compilers and languages. I’ve been reading the dragon book of late, because I’ve needed to implement a coding style verifier and micro optimiser (something which has been talked [...]