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 store [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2008
Misuse of technology, XML case
The 2008 Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages
The XII Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages is going to be happen in my home city of Fortaleza, on August 27th-29th. The programme looks very promising, with sessions about Software Transaction Memory in Haskell, concurrency with Lua (with the main architect of Lua, Roberto Ierusalimschy from PUC-Rio) and an invited talk of Shriram Krishnamurthi, the [...]
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 David Robson
Writing Compilers [...]