Friday, July 10, 2020

A new blog on the Design and Engineering of Programming Languages

I am happy to announce a new blog about the Design and Engineering of Programming Languages.  Only two entries so far.  Here is the first:


The intent is ultimately to create a book-length series of writings on the topic.  Of course, we know where good intentions can lead!  In any case, we hope these blog entries will at least make some interesting reading, even if together they never quite reach book length.

My day job went down to 60% as of July 1st, 2020, so my plan is to find more time to work on ParaSail, its various siblings such as Parython and Javallel, this new blog/book, and a new language on the drawing board, "ParaDISO" (Parallel Distributed, Incremental, Streamable Objects), for distributed/cloud computing.   So now you know what is my definition of fun...