language parallax

Check out this Language Workbench Competition.
I’ve met a few of the founders, but hadn’t seen much conversation between them until recently. I take this as some confirmation that the line of thought I’ve been pursuing for several years does in fact have some cohesion. Eelco Visser at SLE 2008/09 (and his lab at […]

I’m struggling with what language to use for the set of tools at work. The default choice is perl because it’s a sysadmin culture, and because perl is what the existing systems are written in, and because the person commissioning the work knows perl better than any other language.
I have many years of experience […]