“Loell is an experimental programming language in development. The idea is to have a small core with a lot of power. For the rest I plan to use it to try out new language ideas, which I usually get from Lambda the Ultimate. The focus is on testing out language features that improve productivity, like goal directed programming, helpful typing features, readability and building abstractions.”
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Combining imperative and functional programming into one language
“The statement that the framework bits aren’t shipping as part of the 64-bit version of Windows 2003 Server had my interest piqued as it would seem evidence of an actual retreat from .NET–but I’m also left wondering if this is a strategic decision or a tactical one driven by possible framework 64-bit compatability issues. Your guess is as good as mine, but I know I’ve been assuming the framework would be shipping as part of post-XP MS operating systems.”
“he SCO® Group (SCO) (Nasdaq: SCOX), the owner of the UNIX® operating system, today announced it has licensed its UNIX technology including a patent and source code licenses to Microsoft® Corporation. The licensing deal ensures Microsoft’s intellectual property compliance across all Microsoft solutions and will better enable Microsoft to ensure compatibility with UNIX and UNIX services.”
#1: Synchronization is really slow
#2: Declaring classes or methods final makes them faster
#3: Immutable objects are bad for performance
BoxOffice Mojo: “The hotly anticipated middle movie of the Wachowski Bros.’ cyber-epic raked in an incredible $42,508,303 at 3,603 theaters on Thursday, storming past the $30,141,471 that Attack of the Clones posted on this same day last year as the biggest weekday gross ever. That raw number also stands as the highest opening day ever, ahead of Spider-Man’s $39,406,872.”
