Notes concerning “Programming languages”

• Why John Backus Was on the Wrong Track 2007 (updated 2019-05-05) (48 minutes)
• Bicicleta maps 2007 to 2009 (2 minutes)
• Using bytecode won’t make your interpreter fast 2007 to 2009 (26 minutes)
• Erlang musings 2007 to 2009 (3 minutes)
• Error Reporting is Part of the Programmer's User Interface 2007 to 2009 (18 minutes)
• Forth looping 2007 to 2009 (16 minutes)
• Designing a Scheme for APL-like array computations, like Lush 2007 to 2009 (4 minutes)
• Nested inheritance 2007 to 2009 (2 minutes)
• Notes on Raph Levien's "Io" Programming Language 2007 to 2009 (10 minutes)
• The AL programming language, dimensional analysis, and typing: do different dimensions really exist? 2007 to 2009 (2 minutes)
• ML’s value restriction and the Modula-3 typing system 2007 to 2009 (3 minutes)
• Index set inference or domain inference for programming with indexed families 2007 to 2009 (updated 2019-05-05) (27 minutes)
• Simple system language 2013-05-17 (7 minutes)
• Forth with named stacks 2014-02-24 (7 minutes)
• Embedding objects inside other objects in memory, versus by-reference fields 2014-02-24 (13 minutes)
• Ideas to ship in 2014 2014-04-24 (updated 2019-05-05) (35 minutes)
• Entry-C: a Simula-like backwards-compatible object-oriented C 2015-04-05 (updated 2017-04-03) (24 minutes)
• A principled rethinking of array languages like APL 2015-05-16 (updated 2019-09-30) (31 minutes)
• More thoughts on powerful primitives for simplified computer systems architecture 2015-08-18 (updated 2015-11-02) (165 minutes)
• A variety of code fragments for testing proposed language designs 2016-05-18 (19 minutes)
• Algorithm time capsule 2016-08-11 (1 minute)
• Toward a language for hacking around with natural-language processing algorithms 2016-09-08 (7 minutes)
• Graph construction 2016-09-08 (updated 2017-07-19) (23 minutes)
• Notations for defining dynamical systems 2016-10-03 (updated 2016-10-06) (6 minutes)
• Thredsnek: a tiny Python-flavored programming language 2017-03-20 (7 minutes)
• A sketch of a minimalist bytecode for object-oriented languages 2017-03-20 (updated 2017-06-20) (13 minutes)
• Pattern matching and finite functions 2017-05-10 (14 minutes)
• Relational modeling 2017-05-17 (updated 2017-06-01) (6 minutes)
• Parametric polymorphism and columns 2017-07-19 (2 minutes)
• Term rewriting 2017-07-19 (3 minutes)
• Some notes on FullPliant and Pliant 2018-04-27 (9 minutes)
• Speculative plans for BubbleOS 2018-10-28 (updated 2019-02-24) (12 minutes)
• Leconscrip: a family of JS subsets for BubbleOS 2018-11-23 (2 minutes)
• How small can we make a comfortable subset of JS? 2018-11-27 (updated 2018-12-02) (3 minutes)
• Minimal imperative language 2018-12-10 (7 minutes)
• Toward a lightweight, high-performance software prototyping environment 2018-12-10 (15 minutes)
• Improving Lua #L with incremental prefix sum in the ∧ monoid 2018-12-18 (7 minutes)
• IMGUI programming compared to Tcl/Tk 2018-12-24 (updated 2018-12-31) (8 minutes)
• IMGUI programming language 2019-01-01 (updated 2019-07-30) (21 minutes)
• The uses of introspection, reflection, and personal supercomputers in software testing 2019-02-04 (updated 2019-03-11) (12 minutes)
• A review of Wirth’s Project Oberon book 2019-02-04 (updated 2019-03-19) (63 minutes)
• An algebra of textures for interactive composition 2019-05-08 (4 minutes)
• A language whose memory model is a bunch of temporally-indexed logs 2019-05-12 (updated 2018-05-21) (20 minutes)
• Relational modeling and APL 2019-05-20 (updated 2019-05-21) (5 minutes)
• Observable transaction possibilities 2019-06-15 (10 minutes)
• 10tcl ui 2019-12-06 (17 minutes)
• Introduction to closures 2019-12-07 (5 minutes)