Python’s Preprocessor(pydong.org)

375 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 81 comments

Blog post explaining how Python source code encoding declarations (PEP 263) can be abused to implement a preprocessor that transforms code before execution.

Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters(tratt.net)

108 points by ltratt 6 months ago | 22 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.

0xCAFEBABE & 0xFEEDFACE (2003)(radio-weblogs.com)

105 points by diggan 2 years ago | 84 comments

Dafny: Verification-Aware Programming Language(dafny.org)

88 points by handfuloflight 10 months ago | 30 comments

A perfectable programming language(alok.github.io)

196 points by yuppiemephisto 6 months ago | 110 comments