Raku: A language for gremlins(buttondown.email)

355 points by azhenley 3 years ago | 180 comments

Hillel Wayne's Computer Things newsletter post describing the Raku programming language as a quirky language 'by gremlins, for gremlins'.

Nondeterminism in Formal Specification(buttondown.email)

29 points by zdw 2 years ago | 2 comments

The seven programming ur-languages (2021)(madhadron.com)

320 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 167 comments

An essay on the madhadron blog arguing that programming languages descend from seven fundamental 'ur-languages' that learners should explore, rather than near-identical mainstream ones.

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.

When would you ever want bubblesort?(buttondown.email)

78 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 55 comments

Hello World(thecoder08.github.io)

386 points by fbrusch 2 years ago | 65 comments

A blog post taking a deep dive into the layers of abstraction behind a modern Hello World program written in C.