language parallax

For my part, I’ve been working on a project that is tangentially related to language workbenches.
In short, it’s a language-parametric source code index and search algorithm. I put together a prototype in python early last year, and have been working on a port to scala in my free time since then. The scala […]

Last night I stopped by a meeting of the Bay Area Categories and Types group at Noisebridge in the Mission District of San Francisco. They’re using a text from Barr and Wells (which will be arriving soon). It’s nice to have the ability to continue exploring abstract concepts with a group.
I’ve been bumping […]

Just noticed via a Slashdot article that Bespin a web-based IDE from Mozilla Labs, and Heroku, which appears to be a Ruby on Rails web-based IDE, are generating a lot of interest. There’s also mention of an EclipseCon talk introducing a web-based Eclipse workbench.
It had to happen eventually. I’m still planning on playing […]

I’ve been spending a lot of time with python in the last few months. I had briefly looked at it way back in 2000, but hadn’t touched it much since then. Looks like it has matured quite a bit.
I still expect that I’ll be writing java in the future. And there is […]

A few links from some good surfing today:
Monads in python with nice syntax
Linq in C# is a monad
the monad laws (haskell)
a gentle introduction to haskell: values and types
comparison of parser generators (wikipedia)
method signature type checking decorator for python 3.0
dynamic typing vs dynamic language (groovy)
GLR parser
More editorial and a general update to follow soon (including […]

This is the first post from languageparallax.com as hosted on Amazon’s EC2.
It’s about twice as expensive as the old machine I was renting, but the service wasn’t so great and this gives me the chance to gain exposure to a popular compute cloud.
Now if I can just build a popular website that actually takes advantage […]

Thanks to Justin for finding this post about the upcoming 1st annual Software Language Engineering conference. Co-Located with the MoDELS in Toulouse, France, in late September. I was already planning to submit something to MoDELS, but this looks a little more appropriate. Plus the later submission deadline will help. :)
Speaking of submissions, […]

I’ve been working hard on my demo, but unfortunately my blogging frequency is significantly diminished lately. My attitude towards the blog entries is a lot less casual lately — as if I were actually publishing ideas that I’m going to have to stand by in the future.
So I’m a bit reluctant to muse about […]

My tentative plan for wrapping up the PhD in 2008:
* Defend prospectus in January
* Show poster and possibly give a lightning talk at EclipseCon in Santa Clara (March 17-20)
* Paper, demo, and poster at MoDELS in Toulouse, France (early October, I assume)
* Paper, demo, and poster at OOPSLA in Nashville, Tennessee (mid-late October, I assume)
So […]

I received an e-mail from Robert Fuhrer of IBM on Friday announcing the newly renamed Eclipse IMP project (formerly SAFARI).
Main IMP web-site
Installation instructions
Eclipse update site (from which you can install the IMP software)
User’s guide
I’ll spend some time with this in November/December after OOPSLA. I’ll probably go through the basic IDE-generation demo first. Then […]