segunda-feira, 18 de dezembro de 2017

Alan Kay on OOP

This article shows some very basic conceptual error in OOP: Alan Kay Was Wrong (About Him Being Wrong)

There is no encapsultion, there is no modularity, there is no progress in abastraction with OOP.

quarta-feira, 15 de novembro de 2017

Backus had it right!

Can Programming Be Liberated from the Von Neumann Style?

Tikhon Jelvis has it right! 

And some more findings and opinionn on functional programming. Including discovery of the possibility compile-time garbage collection (to be studied):


https://www.quora.com/Why-does-functional-programming-have-such-a-high-status-in-academic-circles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2047
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/339666/managed-code-could-gc-be-taken-care-of-during-compile-time
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4471-3810-5_14
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227295133_Compile-time_garbage_collection_for_lazy_functional_languages
https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/131304/1/Mazur.pdf

sábado, 27 de maio de 2017

Systems programming language

What is the best "systems" programming language?

Very few mentions of assembler. Lots of mentions of very high level languages features. No consideration to the performance obtained with assembler. Plus simplicity due to direct hardware control.

Only restriction would be the fact that assembler is tied to a specific hardware architecture. However, as of today there are very few distinct architectures, it seems this is a minor nuisance.

Also, good to see a reference to ADA. Also to Lispworks.

Very disturbing several references to C as a low-level language.

Some links:
http://www.ats-lang.org/
http://www.lispworks.com/index.html
http://www.cliki.net/concurrency
https://forge.open-do.org/plugins/moinmoin/parasail/
http://longterm.softf1.com/2015/comments/2015_06_xx_Introduction_to_AdaCore_ParaSail_Programming_Language.pdf