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What Makes a Programming Language Successful?

danielstoner writes "The article '13 reasons why Ruby, Python and the gang will push Java to die... of old age' makes an interesting analysis of the programming languages battling for a place in programmers' minds. What really makes a language popular? What really makes a language 'good'? What is success for a programming language? Can we say COBOL is a successful language? What about Ruby, Python, etc?"

Transparent Language Launches Free Leet Word of the Day Through iGoogle and MySpace Gadgets, Email, and RSS Feed. LRN leet, n00b!

Transparent Language, a leader in language learning solutions, today announced the launch of its new Leet Word of the Day service at http://www.transparent.com/wotd/today/leetspeak-words.htm. Once reserved for only the very upper crust of internet society, Word of the Day makes leetness accessible to the common gamer. Leet Word of the Day offers a new 1337 ("leet") slice of internet culture each day, teaches proper usage with example sentences, and provides native speaker sound for learning proper pronunciation. Language learners may subscribe to daily email or RSS feed, or add a Word of the Day gadget to their iGoogle or MySpace pages.

Transparent Language Launches Free Leet Word of the Day Through iGoogle and MySpace Gadgets, Email, and RSS Feed. LRN leet, n00b!

NASHUA, N.H. - (Business Wire) Transparent Language, a leader in language learning solutions, today announced the launch of its new Leet Word of the Day service at http://www.transparent.com/wotd/today/leetspeak-words.htm. Once reserved for only the very upper crust of internet society, Word of the Day makes leetness accessible to the common gamer. Leet Word of the Day offers a new 1337 ("leet") slice of internet culture each day, teaches proper usage with example sentences, and provides native speaker sound for learning proper pronunciation. Language learners may subscribe to daily email or RSS feed, or add a Word of the Day gadget to their iGoogle or MySpace pages.

Transparent Language Launches Free Leet Word of the Day Through iGoogle and MySpace Gadgets, Email, and RSS Feed. LRN leet, n00b!

NASHUA, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2008--Transparent Language, a leader in language learning solutions, today announced the launch of its new Leet Word of the Day service at http://www.transparent.com/wotd/today/leetspeak-words.htm. Once reserved for only the very upper crust of internet society, Word of the Day makes leetness accessible to the common gamer. Leet Word of the Day offers a new 1337 ("leet") slice of internet culture each day, teaches proper usage with example sentences, and provides native speaker sound for learning proper pronunciation. Language learners may subscribe to daily email or RSS feed, or add a Word of the Day gadget to their iGoogle or MySpace pages.

Creating Multi-Language Custom Control

Suppose that we are dealing with a multi-language website: English, French, Chinese, etc. and in some forms we need to enter a username in three languages, each language in a separate textbox. Abdulla's custom control allows developers to add these three textboxs inside a custom multilang control that will reform these textboxes inside a sliding div that displays one textbox at a time for the selected language. More...

Full Sentence Foreign Language Translations for Smartphone

Clifton, VA (PRWEB) July 17, 2008 -- World Concepts, Inc. (WCI) announces the availability of free form full sentence foreign language translation for Mobile 6 Smartphones. The language translations available are Spanish to/from English; French to/from English; German to/from English; or, if all languages are purchased, between any two languages. All language pairs come with comprehensive dictionaries of 18 to 35 thousand terms consisting of the most commonly used words.

Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer?

Ben B writes "I'm working on an undergraduate degree in computer engineering in the US, and I'm a native English-speaking citizen. In fact, English is the only language that I know. Maybe it's not the same at other schools, but for the engineering program at mine, a foreign language is not required. If my plans are to one day be involved in research, is it worth my time to learn a foreign language? If so, which one?" Learning something new is almost never a waste of time, but how much energy have others found worthwhile to expend with all of the programming/math/tech type courses to be had at a large university?

Same Dev Tools/Language/Framework For Everyone?

AC writes "Upper management of the company I work at recently declared that all new development should be done with a single combination of development tools, language, and framework. The main rationale is that people can be relocated from one group / project to another faster, because they don't need to learn a new environment when they switch. Of course the chosen language / framework used by everybody does not need to be the best tool for the job, but it should be good enough to allow every project to get done. What does Slashdot think about this? Is it OK to use the same development tools and language for every project, instead of choosing what fits best? Will the time saved be sufficient to offset the time lost to the 'not the best tool for the job' environment developers will be forced to use?"

Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers

In 2004 we discussed the Piraha, a tribe in the Amazon, when a study appeared characterizing their language as a "one, two, many" language. Now reader mu22le informs us of a new study of the Piraha pointing to the possibility that they use no number words at all. Instead they seem to use the word formerly thought to mean "two" to represent a quantity of 5 or 6, and the "one" word for anything from 1 to 4. The language has about 300 native speakers. "The study... offers evidence that number words are a concept invented by human cultures as they are needed, and not an inherent part of language, Gibson said."

Language May Have Evolved Earlier Than Supposed

Science News reports on research suggesting that humans' language ability may have developed earlier than we thought. Scientists used CT scanning of H. heidelbergensis skulls, more than 530,000 years old, to reconstruct the structure of the ear canal of this Neanderthal ancestor. They found evidence that the ears of these early hominids would have had a sensitivity peak in the same 2-4 KHz range that the ears of modern humans do — the range in which most information is carried in language. Sensory systems are neurologically expensive, and it's unlikely that the body would invest the resources in maintaining such a system if it didn't serve a purpose. Quoting: "It may be time to rethink the stereotype of grunting, wordless Neanderthals. The prehistoric humans may have been quite chatty — at least if the ear canals of their ancestors ar

Biology Enters "The Matrix" Through New Computer Language

A new computer language for modeling biological phenomenon can "think" like cells and molecular mechanisms think, thereby simulating the dynamics of biological phenomenon. Through incorporating basic principles of engineering, the new language, called Little b, surpasses current biological modeling software in that it goes beyond simply representing biological information. It allows biologists to create programs that can reason about biological knowledge and thereby help overcome the barrier of complexity.

Boldly Go Where the Java Language Has Never Gone Before and JVM Clustering in the Real World - Expert Webcast

Developers don't have to learn a new language to touch other application domains. A new development trend focuses on achieving functionalities not provided by the JVM with the standard Java programming language.

Boldly Go Where the Java Language Has Never Gone Before and JVM Clustering in the Real World

Developers don't have to learn a new language to touch other application domains. A new development trend focuses on achieving functionalities not provided by the JVM with the standard Java programming language.

Boldly Go Where the Java Language Has Never Gone Before and JVM Clustering in the Real World

Developers don't have to learn a new language to touch other application domains. A new development trend focuses on achieving functionalities not provided by the JVM with the standard Java programming language.

What Best Buy has learned from its Spanish-language e-commerce site

Best Buy Co. launched a Spanish-language version of its web site in September. While emphasizing its too early to draw firm conclusions, the consumer electronics retailer has noted some differences in how consumers use the Spanish site compared with the primary English-language site.

What Does the Future Hold for the Java Language?

Before Java I was a Smalltalk guy. I remember switching from one language to the other and the tipping point that you reach when you’ve mastered the new language and how many months it takes, not to mention the years, to do really good design and know-how, which patterns to apply and how to avoid mistakes, understand performance issues, and so forth. I recently had to look at some Smalltalk code and realized that after spending a period away it was hard to figure out what to do – I definitely wouldn’t call myself a competent Smalltalk programmer anymore.

Why not learn a little language while you work, Amigo?

Books, CDs, flashcards, classes -- there are a lot of tools to help you learn a foreign language. If you spend much of your time near a computer, software may be one of the better options. Ian McIntosh's Amigo is a friendly language utility for the Linux user, notable for how well it integrates into the desktop.

Interview With Author of the First Spoof Language

An anonymous reader brings us Computerworld's interview with Don Woods, one of the creators of Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym (INTERCAL). INTERCAL and its documentation were created in 1972 as a parody of that era's languages and instruction manuals. Among other things, Woods had this to say: "We designed the language without too much trouble. Writing the manual took a while, especially for things like the circuit diagrams we included as nonsensical illustrations. The compiler itself actually wasn't too much trouble, given that we weren't at all concerned with optimising the performance of either the compiler or the compiled code. I admit I'm surprised at its longevity. Some of the jokes in the original work feel rather dated at this point.

Apple patent describes new multi-touch gesture language

A new patent application from Apple, "called 'Gesture learning' gives a whole new meaning to gesture expansion. It describes how Apple may go about teaching you a whole new multi-touch gesture language, consisting of hundreds of words. Something like American Sign Language for touchscreens," Staska reports for Unwired View.

.NET TIP: Using .NET Reflector

Code written in a .NET language like C# is referred to as managed code. That is, it is not compiled into machine-specific instructions. Instead, .NET compiles into MSIL (Microsoft intermediate language). MSIL is a machine-independent instruction set that is compiled at runtime by the .NET CLR (common language runtime). A similar sequence of events takes place in the Java world, within the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). This extra compilation step is the key to .NET's success. Code executes in a protected sandbox, the managed environment of the CLR. It can provide greater security, stability, and it can run on any piece of hardware that the CLR supports, which may someday include non-Microsoft platforms. With executable programs produced by traditional languages, it can be very difficult to analyze the original source code.

Transparent Language Launches Free Leet Word of the Day Through iGoogle and MySpace Gadgets, Email, and RSS Feed. LRN leet, n00b!

Transparent Language Launches Free Leet Word of the Day Through iGoogle and MySpace Gadgets, Email, and RSS Feed. LRN leet, n00b!

Japan to launch world's first financial infrastructure for stock markets XML-based language called XBRL, which volunteers spent seven years developing, to play major role in opening up Japan's stock markets to foreign investors

XML-based language called XBRL, which volunteers spent seven years developing, to play major role in opening up Japan's stock markets to foreign investors

Will Google deliver its own dynamic language runtime?

It’s been over a year since Microsoft announced its dynamic language runtime (DLR), a software layer on top of .Net that allows dynamic languages, like Ruby and Python, to integrate more tightly with Microsoft’s core set of developer class libraries.

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