Friday, February 07, 2003

Everything's genealogical hyperlinked map of the most important programming languages: The Programming Languages Genealogy Project
"Pike is very similar to C#. In fact, one could easily think that some engineers at Microsoft and the other companies behind C# were Pike-users..."
"O'Caml has lots of modern features, like garbage collection (as in Java), closures (lacking in both Java and C++), parametrized modules (like C++ templates on steroids), automatic type inference (you don't have to write typing information by hand, the compiler can figure it out)..." --O'Caml FAQ
Computer Language Shootout Scorecard

Tuesday, February 04, 2003

Wrote a tiny patch for lilgp. Details here
Valgrind: memory checker
xxdiff: graphical diff
Despite its widespread use and costs, little hard evidence exists that peer review improves the quality of published research