The seven programming ur-languages (2022)(madhadron.com)

321 points by helloplanets 6 months ago | 123 comments

Essay on the madhadron blog arguing programming languages descend from seven fundamental 'ur-languages' that learners should explore instead of similar mainstream languages.

Why most of us won't be inventing little languages(slesinsky.org)

82 points by luu 3 years ago | 75 comments

That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us something(utcc.utoronto.ca)

200 points by ingve 3 years ago | 316 comments

Totality and non-standard recursion in Idris(franklin.dyer.me)

4 points by franklin_p_dyer 2 years ago | 0 comments

Understanding Concurrency, Parallelism and JavaScript(rugu.dev)

92 points by kugurerdem 2 years ago | 16 comments

Carl's Required Reading(carlkolon.com)

212 points by cckolon 2 months ago | 26 comments

The seven programming ur-languages (2022)(madhadron.com)

321 points by helloplanets 6 months ago | 123 comments

Essay on the madhadron blog arguing programming languages descend from seven fundamental 'ur-languages' that learners should explore instead of similar mainstream languages.

Programming languages that blew my mind (2023)(yoric.github.io)

329 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 182 comments

A blog post by David Teller recounting the programming languages that changed how he thinks about programming over his career.

We Should Be Able to Change Our Languages(jimmyhmiller.com)

48 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 24 comments

Jimmy Miller essay arguing programmers should be able to customize and change their programming languages rather than treat them as fixed artifacts.

Writing that changed how I think about programming languages(bernsteinbear.com)

388 points by r4um 1 year ago | 48 comments

A blog post listing papers, posts, and videos on programming languages and compilers that changed the author's thinking, with short commentary on each.

Small programming tricks(will-keleher.com)

606 points by signa11 1 month ago | 266 comments

A blog post arguing that small nuggets of programming knowledge boost productivity, sharing examples like fzf-powered ctrl+r and python3 -m http.server.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.