chaosgame | 14 years ago | on: Programming language innovation - Is it dying?
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chaosgame | 14 years ago | on: Programming language innovation - Is it dying?
Very few languages are truly groundbreaking. Most are simply refinements of existing ideas (doesn't necessarily mean that they're not a step forward). If you're interested in something earth-shatteringly different, you're going to need to look into programming language research to find it (One great reference that could probably answer this question better is http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/).
For examples of a recent-ish language that was developed by a professor at UIUC, see http://maude.cs.uiuc.edu/, which is based on rewriting logic and is currently still being developed/refined. But even that has strong ties to a previous language OBJ by the same creator.
If you're interested in learning something really different but a bit easier/more fun, I would strongly recommend Prolog. Schapiro has a great book (http://www.amazon.com/Art-Prolog-Second-Programming-Techniqu...).
chaosgame | 14 years ago | on: BDD For Node - Introducing vows-bdd
Am I the only one who read through the article looking for where Binary Decision Diagrams came in?
chaosgame | 14 years ago | on: Freeform - a meta language that allows defining and extending syntax inline.
chaosgame | 14 years ago | on: Freeform - a meta language that allows defining and extending syntax inline.
maude: http://maude.cs.uiuc.edu/
chaosgame | 14 years ago | on: Math reading list
This is without a doubt the best post I've seen on Hacker News in months.
chaosgame | 15 years ago | on: Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects
#define struct union
chaosgame | 16 years ago | on: Mailing list debates considered harmful
"no end in _site_".
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Even if the research doesn't affect a completely new programming language, it could very likely have a strong hand in updating old ones. See programming language memory models for instance.