http://www.languageparallax.com/wordpress by adam pingel Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:56:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.languageparallax.com/wordpress/?p=97 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 ... http://www.languageparallax.com/wordpress/?p=96 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 ... http://www.languageparallax.com/wordpress/?p=95 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. ... http://www.languageparallax.com/wordpress/?p=94 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 ... http://www.languageparallax.com/wordpress/?p=93 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 ... http://www.languageparallax.com/wordpress/?p=92 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 ... http://www.languageparallax.com/wordpress/?p=91 A follow up on my recent Spacewalk post. It looks like Red Hat is really getting organized. A number of projects seem to be communicating and integrating: Spacewalk Cobbler Puppet(not a RH project, but it seems to have quasi-official approval) Func TheHat Genome The "Genome" project looks like some kind of umbrella or glue for ... http://www.languageparallax.com/wordpress/?p=90 I've been doing some consulting lately that has had me revisiting a lot of old ground. We're using cobbler and puppet for large portions of it. Nagios is the likely candidate for monitoring, with maybe some cacti thrown in for historical charting. It's a little disappointing given ... http://www.languageparallax.com/wordpress/?p=89 Not much blogging lately, but I have a good excuse. I decided to take one last class here at UCLA -- a programming language design lab run by Todd Millstein and Alan Kay. I've taken classes from both before, but this one is probably the most useful so ... http://www.languageparallax.com/wordpress/?p=88