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I approve of case-sensitivity where an initial Capital letter indicates that Something is Publically accessible and it really doesn't matter what happens after that. Hence, we coul…

I don't have a problem with "x - y" and approve of hyphenated names if you can't support spaces within names. I had initially jumped to the conclusion that your language would use …

> Something is wrong if most programs don't run instantaneously Agreed. BBC BASIC V on my Archimedes had zero startup penalties, unlike modern JIT languages. > Highly optimizing co…

I recommend you keep a close eye on the work of the VPRI: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf

Anything open to ambiguity can be resolved through dialogue.

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I can recommend his book. The Search for the Perfect Language - Umberto Eco - 2010

Interesting research. Of course, you could always hack the Home button to act as a Command key and hold the device in landscape orientation without having to give up a piece of the…

do or do not where is no try catch exception

I think we will get there, but on a much longer timeframe.

I have a beard. Wish me luck with my new language.

Processing.js http://sketchpad.cc/h3QngEM9Vu

Well that was amazingly well-written and informative...

That is so much shorter than what I posted on Derek Siver's site it is embarrassing: Born at the end of the '60s just before Christmas I was named after a saint. Later I found out …

> It's like Musicians saying Rhythm is stupid. I love that sentence. It makes me think Haskell is like Bartok.

Donald Knuth uses GOTO. It is perfectly safe if kept within a function: invoke a function, jump around like crazy inside it, exit to caller with return value. No problem.

C functions are really procedures, except when they have no side effects on global variables. Indeed, a C function can be regarded as pure even if it contains imperative state chan…

Wow. I didn't think this would be possible, but Notch has managed to top Minecraft. This is even duller than that borefest.

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No Managing Director should earn more than the Prime Minister. £142,000 per annum - David Cameron Richard Branson earns that in a little over a week.

In July 2012, it was announced that active development on Fortress would cease after a brief winding-down period, citing complications with using Fortress's type system on existing…

Well, I've written about thirty million words on the subject, but I don't think it will take me 12 years to implement an initial prototype, more like two and then several years for…

I just needed a hobby to keep me from getting bored and depressed. I had adapted a screenplay and made plans to write a novel, but my interest in programming had been sparked by an…

Although it could be classed as procrastination. What I ought to be doing is so incredibly dry that I need to give myself a break most of the time and only work on it when I feel i…

When I read one of these Lifehackery blogs with a section that is entitled 'The Nap Month' it makes me feel that the author was procrastinating and trying to justify behaviour they…