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Xah on Programing Languages

The following is a index of essays related to computer languages. (use the search box at bottom to find what you are looking for.)

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Technical Essays On Computer Language

• What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities (Object Oriented Program as Functional Program)
• The Concepts and Confusions of Algebraic and Fully Functional Notations
• Unix Pipe As Functional Language
• The Hack of bitmask used as Boolean Parameters
• Pattern Matching vs Pattern Specification
• What is Expressiveness in a computer language?
• Lambda in Python 3000
• The Fate of Lambda in Python 3000 and Scheme v300
• What's List Comprehension and Why is it Harmful?
• Linden Scripting Language Problems

• Why Must Software be Rewritten for Multi-Core Processors?
• Guy Steele on Parallel Programing

• Proliferation of Computing Languages
• Hardware Modeled Computer Languages
• Python's Reference And Internal Model Of Computing Languages
• Functional Programing: Function Output Should Always Have the Same Structure
• Learning Notes on Goto, Continuation, Coroutine
• Why Is Namespace So Difficult?

Social Issues

• HTML Correctness and Validators
• What Languages to Hate
• the Measure of a Language
• Programing Languages Popularity Trend
• Computer Language Websites Popularity
• What Determines a Computer Language's Popularity?
• Erik Naggum and Why There Isn't An Ocean of “Lisp Jobs”
• One Language to Rule Them All?
• Python, Lambda, Guido: is Language Design Just Solving Puzzles?

• Why Not Ruby?
• 3D Graphics Formats and Social Causes in Computer Languages

On Notations ＆ Syntax

Syntax ＆ Notation

• The Concepts and Confusions of Prefix, Infix, Postfix and Fully Nested Notations
• Fundamental Problems of Lisp
• What Are Some Quality Properties of Computer Language Syntax?
• What's Function, What's Operator?
• Logical Operators, Truth Table, Unicode
• What's Point-free Programing? (point-free function syntax)
• Computer Languages, ASCII Jam, Fortress, Unicode
• HTML6: Your JSON and SXML Simplified
• Computer Language Design: String Syntax
• AutoHotkey Syntax Problems
• What's the Most Readable Computer Language Syntax?

• the TeX pestilence
• The Problems of Traditional Math Notation
• A Notation for Plane Geometry

Formatting

• A Simple Lisp Code Formatter
• A Text Editor Feature: Syntax Tree Walk

• The Harm of hard-wrapping Lines
• Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code
• Plain-Text Email Fetish
• Unix, RFC, Line Truncation

• Emacs Why line-move-visual
• Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips

Jargons of Software Industry

• Jargons of Software Industry (15+ articles)

LISP and Lispers

• Fundamental Problems of Lisp
• My First Encounter And Impression Of Lisp
• Lisp's List Problem
• Is Lisp's Objects Concept Necessary?
• What is Closure in a Programing Language?
• comp.lang.lisp Fight on The Meaning of Closure
• Lispers and Wikipedia
• Modernization of Emacs Lisp
• Why You should Not Use The Jargon Lisp1 and Lisp2

• Why Lisp Do Not Have A Generic Copy-List Function
• Programing Language: A Ruby Illustration of Lisp Problems
• What is Your Favorite Lisp
• Why Learn Lisp When There Are Perl And Python
• Language, Purity, Cult, and Deception
• Scheme ＆ Failure
• Paul Graham's Infatuation with the Concept of Hacker
• Lisp Macros and Practical Common Lisp
• I Can Not Find A Word Better Than “CAR”
• Will Lisp Ever Be Popular?

Misc

• Python Documentation Problems
• Emacs and Lisp Related Essays
• Programing Style: Variable Naming: English Words Considered Harmful

• A Example of Mathematica's Expressiveness
• Perl Books Survey 2002