I do not have strong feelings about XML, be it for or against it. I don’t use it much because I use either S-Expressions with Scheme or Lua tables with Lua. I believe XML can be helpful, but people need to know how to use it. I have come across an application of XML to [...]
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Bibliography of Programming Languages Implementation
Doing some research about compilers, interpreters and virtual machines, I have gathered some bibliography from several resources. Here it is, in no particular order: Essentials of Programming Languages, by Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand and Christopher T. Haynes Programming Language Pragmatics, by Michael L. Scott Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation, by Adele Goldberg and [...]
Poster of programming paradigms
Browsing the web today I found an interesting poster about programming paradigms. Interestingly, it puts Java right there with OCaml in the state + closures section, and Java does not have closures. But since there is no OOP in the poster, I assume the author is equaling closures to objects, which according to some is [...]