Languages may get higher profile
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Anti-Virus Firms Fearing A Lack Of High
Profile Viruses -- Pump Up Low Profile O
Anti-Virus Firms Fearing A Lack Of High
Profile Viruses -- Pump Up Low Profile O
03/29/2005 02:05 PMSix years after the famous "Melissa" mass mailing viruses, some
started to say that
mass mailing viruses were on the decline. Of course, for the
publicity departments of anti-virus firms, that's bad news. They need
some sort of virus scare every other day or so to prop up sales. So,
wouldn't you know it, just as we're told that mass mailing viruses are
on the decline, Symantec comes out with a screaming warning about
some new mass mailing virus.
Of course, when you look at the details, even they admit that it's a
"low" or "moderate" threat. However, that's never stopped the company
from ringing the fear bell to try to drum up some extra sales.
Open Text posts higher second-quarter
profits on higher software revenues
Open Text posts higher second-quarter
profits on higher software revenues
01/24/2004 10:16 AMCanadian Press Jan 24 2004 2:19PM GMT
"Other Languages "
"Other Languages "
03/29/2005 11:43 PM"Other
Languages "
"Other
Languages "
04/08/2005 02:50 PMVoyager's 55 Languages
Voyager's 55 Languages
12/19/2004 03:44 PMThe Voyager spacecraft had their famous galactic greetings on board,
with the map offering detailed instructions for any aliens who wanted
to invade Earth, the drawing of a naked man and woman designed to make
me giggle when I saw it depicted in my fifth grade science textbook,
and the...
The Parable of Languages
The Parable of Languages
10/09/2002 11:48 AMToday, though, the group was quiet, much quieter than usual, because
one of their members, PHP, was not its usual cheerful self. In fact,
one could say that PHP was in a true funk, if one had a mind to say
something like that aloud, or within the hearing of one's boss. Or
doctor.
Why the blues, PHP, the other languages asked. All the languages that
is but C, because all C ever said was "bite me", being a rude language
and hard to live with, but still respected because it was such a good
worker.
And PHP answered...
"tri" Thx to Sam Ruby
for the link.
"zeldman.93kr73"
Dynamic Languages
Dynamic Languages
08/12/2004 11:41 AMDynamic Tools for Dynamic Languages: After reading the "
Programmers are Idiots" essay that Joe posted last week, I got to
thinking about my situation. Am I actually a programmer? I came to
the conclusion that no, I'm not — I'm a scripter. I work
predominantly on the Web, and while I can "program" in Visual Basic, I
work best in scripting languages like PHP.
I guess I like to think that I solve problems, regardless of
method. I may not fire up a C++ IDE and compile stuff right and left,
but my company comes to me with IT problems every day (every hour,
sometimes), and I manage to solve 90% of them. I use all sorts of
languages and technologies, but at the end of the day, problems are
solved and business continues to improve.
(I will admit, however, to a concerted attempt lately to program
some things in VB.Net. Why? Because while I may not consider myself
a "programmer," I do enjoy getting paid like one. And, sadly, you
don't see many job postings for "problem solver.")
Related to all this is the essay linked above. It's a Very
Important Thing. It's very long, but it has good headings, so you can
skim it.
The author attempts to redefine traditional "scripting" languages
like Perl, Python, and PHP as "dynamic languages." It's essentially a
call for respect — these languages may be as glamourous as
Visual Basic, Java, and C++, but they solve as many problems.
Oftentimes more.
Just as Linux was suddenly recognized as a significant platform
choice after years of being "snuck in through the back door",
high-level open source programming languages are becoming recognized
by mainstream analysts as key pieces of an effective approach to
building software.
[...] The strengths of these languages derive from their open
source nature, from their pragmatic approach, and from their constant
evolution in response to real user needs. Ignoring them is equivalent
to ignoring the hammer in your tool chest because you've just been
sold a fancy screwdriver.
So, am I a programmer? Or am I a scripter? Or am I just a guy who
solves problems through a broad base of experience with what a lot
platforms, languages, and applications can do?
If it were up to me, I'd much rather hire someone who knew a little
about a lot, and who could analyze a problem from that perspective
before coming up with a solution that was centered around making the
problem go away rather than using one language over the other. Of
course, sometimes you need a specific type of programmer, but just as
often, you don't — you really just need a problem solver.
But maybe I'm just making excuses because I don't have CS degree
and I hate compiling stuff. Perhaps I'm just bitter.
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Sitegalore Available in 8 Languages
Sitegalore Available in 8 Languages
01/05/2005 04:44 PMtheWHIR Jan 5 2005 8:12PM GMT
Languages and environments
Languages and environments
04/05/2005 12:19 PM
Programming languages and their environments are an abiding passion.
I'm always on the lookout for a better mousetrap, and lately I've been
working with three relative newcomers: the PHP-based plugin
architecture of the WordPress blogging engine, the Ruby on Rails
framework, and Mark Logic's XQuery-based Content Interaction Server.
Each of these languages does very different things for different
reasons, and the associated environments are likewise very different.
But in each case the language is tightly bound to the environment in
ways that I often wish it weren't.
...
Languages and environments have always been fellow travelers. At some
point they'll begin to part ways. Domain-specific languages will
continue to flourish; they're the future of programming. But they'll
target fewer environments. The most obvious of these are the Java
Virtual Machine and the .NET Common Language Runtime, along with their
class frameworks. It'll take another turn of the evolutionary crank,
but we'll get there. [Full story at
InfoWorld.com]
...Performance Benchmarks of Nine Languages
Performance Benchmarks of Nine Languages
01/09/2004 10:12 PMSlashdot Jan 9 2004 3:25PM ET
Simple mini-languages with PHP
Simple mini-languages with PHP
05/12/2004 05:15 PMI linked to PDML the
other day in my blogmarks, but beyond a
cursory glance I hadn't really dug in to what makes it tick. Dumky
over at Curiosity is bliss points out that it
makes use of an ingenious output buffering trick. To create a PDML document, you
add a single line to the top of a page that includes and executes the
PDML
library (written in PHP). The rest of the document is written in
the custom PDML markup language. The script uses output
buffering to capture the rest of the page, then executes a callback
function that actually processes the page content (see ob_start() for details).
As Dumky points out, this can be used to implement mini-languages
for pretty much anything - and PHP 5's excellent XML support means most of the parser work
is handled for you. It could also act as a neat way of hooking in to
things like server-side XSLT processors.
WebDesign 2.6 now supports more Web
languages
WebDesign 2.6 now supports more Web
languages
03/17/2005 04:01 AMCanadian developer Rage Software on Wednesday released WebDesign 2.6,
a free update for existing users to its HTML source code editor, which
includes an integrated Site Manager. This upgrade adds support for
such Web languages as JavaScript, XML, ASP and VBScript and enhances
its syntax coloring with customizable options. In addition, it adds
Rendezvous support to the FTP client, new options and commands and
more. WebDesign is US$29.95, which includes a free year of Web
hosting. Mac OS X v10.2 is required.
How many languages in your music
collection?
How many languages in your music
collection?
06/17/2005 03:29 PMI'm not what you would call a fan of world music, but I just
counted the number of languages used in my music collection and came
up with nine:
- English - Most of the songs
- Spanish - Manu Chao, Pixies, others...
- French - Manu Chao, Amelie soundtrack, Dealership, others...
- Japanese - Yoshinori Sunahara
- Portuguese - Seu Jorge (his Bowie covers from The Life
Aquatic)
- Icelandic - Sigur Ros
- German - Nena (99 Luftballoons), Kraftwerk
- Latin - Chant (you know, that ubiquitous Gregorian chants CD from
the mid-90s)
- Galician - Mano Chao
Seems like there should be some Italian in there as well, but I
can't find any right now. And I didn't count Hopelandic, which is a
made-up language that Sigur Ros uses in some of their songs. How many
languages can you find in your music collection? Post your list or a
link to your blog post in the comments.
XML Boulevard: Lesson 5 - XML languages
XML Boulevard: Lesson 5 - XML languages
04/16/2005 09:10 PMThe History of Programming Languages
The History of Programming Languages
06/17/2004 12:59 PMDozix007 writes "For 50 years, computer programmers have been writing
code. New technologies continue to emerge, develop, and mature at a
rapid pace. Now there are more than 2,500 documented programming
languages and O'Reilly has produced a poster called History of
Programming Languages, which plots over 50 programming languages on a
multi-layered, color-coded timeline."
CMS Administation vs. Presentation
Languages
CMS Administation vs. Presentation
Languages
07/18/2004 08:55 AMJoe's ColdFusion post got me thinking about a little
fling I had with ColdFusion a few years back. I liked it for its
simplicity and declarative syntax, but I didn't think it had enough
depth.
However, wouldn't it be great as a templating language for an
existing CMS? It's lightweight, simple, plays well with HTML, etc.
In a larger sense, who says that your content needs to be presented by
the same language that your CMS is written in? Separation is
good.
Think of content management as having two sides — (1)
managing and adminstering content, and (2) displaying content. (I
would actually argue — and I have — that content management has
nothing to do with displaying content, but stick with me here.)
Now, lets put the 50-yard line of this game at the database. So
the creation, management, approval, and general administration of
content all leads up to one moment — when a certain content
record in a database table is declared "active." Everything is
working up to that point. The "active" records in the database table
are free to be used on the public side of the site.
Why not just create a view of the database that only includes those
records, then give your designers and presentation specialists a
read-only user and a copy of ColdFusion? Who says that the language
the CMS is programmed in has to be the language the content is
presented in?
I've
talked before about the fact that the management of content is the
hard part, The presentation of content is usually pretty easy, while
actually getting content to the 50-yard line of our situation —
through creation, adding of metadata, approvals, various workflows,
etc. — is the real value-add of content management.
I say use whatever language you need to program your CMS, but don't
feel compelled to use that same langauge for presenting the content.
ColdFusion would be perfect in this capacity (and ColdFu
sion Express is — or was — free). Client-tools work
work well here as well — Dreamweaver has gre
at database integration, and FrontPage would even work in a pinch.
And who could forget about Escapade
?
I working on a CMS right now, and I'm tempted to bag the entire
built-in templating system I have and just leverage an existing
language for it. I'm suddenly enamoured with the idea of drawing a
defined "content line" and having a complete separation of systems on
either side of, with the only common element the database
itself.
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Programming Languages Study
Programming Languages Study
06/09/2004 04:16 AMgnat writes "The Scriptometer attempts to measure the ease of
scripting in different languages. While it's not the pinnacle of
scientific impeccability, it's an interesting idea and Perl comes out
well."
Search in Two Languages with Babelplex
Search in Two Languages with Babelplex
12/17/2004 06:37 PMNo, it's not Babelfish (though it does use Babelfish), it's Babelplex,
a bilingual search service. It's available at http://babelplex.com/ .
What it does is allow you to specify a query...
A Map of Languages in the United States
A Map of Languages in the United States
06/22/2004 06:04 AMA Map of Languages in the United Stateshttp://www.mla.org/census_main
The MLA Language Map is intended for use by students,
teachers, and anyone interested in learning about the linguistic and
cultural composition of the United States. The MLA Language Map uses
data from the 2000 United States census to display the locations and
numbers of speakers of thirty languages and seven groups of less
commonly spoken languages in the United States. The Language Map
illustrates the density of language speakers in zip codes and
counties. The Data Center provides actual numbers and percentages of
speakers.
Native Languages of the Americas
Native Languages of the Americas
09/02/2004 05:40 PM
Native Languages of the
Americas: Preserving and promoting American Indian languages.
Dynamic languages and enterprise VMs
Dynamic languages and enterprise VMs
01/08/2004 07:09 PM
We hoped 2003 would bring a rapprochement between the dominant
enterprise VMs, Java and .Net, and the dynamic-language VMs that are
still in many ways well-kept secrets. That mostly didn't happen. At
the JavaOne 2003 technical keynote in June there was a nod in the
direction of JSR (Java Specification Request) 223, which would enable
languages such as PHP to be used in the Java Web tier. But the
stewards of the enterprise VMs still aren't pushing to integrate them
with the popular and productive dynamic-language VMs.
Jython, the Java/Python hybrid, has a growing cult following, but
isn't on Sun's radar screen. Microsoft has yet to deliver on its early
promises to make dynamic languages first-class citizens of the CLR.
Here's hoping that the many VMs that flourished in 2003 will work
better together in 2004. [Full story at InfoWorld.com (part of 2003 Technology
of the Year)]
The ever-quotable Sean McGrath has said, of Jython:
Jython, lest you do not know of
it, is the most compelling weapon the Java platform has for its
survival into the 21st century. [Sean McGrath]
Hyperbole? Maybe not. This weekend, I was working with the Java API to
Sleepycat's Berkeley DB XML, and it felt like one of those bad dreams
in which you're slogging through molasses toward an ever-receding
goal. I switched to Jython and quickly got the job done. And it was
the same job (indexing and searching content) using the
same
engine (Berkeley DB XML).
...InternetNews: P-Languages Better For
Enterprise
InternetNews: P-Languages Better For
Enterprise
03/29/2005 08:51 AMIn a new pointer from
PHP Magazine:
Building Little Languages with Macros
Building Little Languages with Macros
05/07/2004 03:38 AMDDJ May 7 2004 7:18AM GMT
Translation for European Languages
Translation for European Languages
10/22/2002 10:57 PMWhere to start and who to do it?
Report: P-Languages Better For
Enterprise
Report: P-Languages Better For
Enterprise
03/25/2005 05:06 PMSoftware First for African Languages
Software First for African Languages
09/05/2004 07:59 AMSoftware First for African Languageshttp://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=6835&do=gpage
Two years of computer programming will culminate with the
launch of the first word processing software to run in Zulu, Sepedi
and Afrikaans. Its developers claim that this is the first word
processor to be released in African languages, beating a project by
Microsoft SA to convert its own software into native languages.
W3C Whips Up API to Manage Web Languages
W3C Whips Up API to Manage Web Languages
01/13/2003 04:03 PMThe Web standards publishes Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML,
an application programming interface to grapple with HTML and XHTML
1.0 documents.
Lightweight Languages 2 Conference
Lightweight Languages 2 Conference
03/13/2003 10:16 AMThis Saturday, I attended the
LL2
conference at MIT. LL2 is
dedicated to "lightweight" programming languages, a
delibrately loose
category including (1) any pleasant, easy-to-use scripting
language and
(2) any academic language which makes it easier to prototype and
write
software quickly. LL2 is a small, informal workshop with audience
participation. The attendees are a diverse bunch, and enjoy
goring
each other's sacred cows. You have been warned.
A strategic vision for dynamic languages
A strategic vision for dynamic languages
08/09/2004 11:45 AM
As operating systems consolidate around managed interfaces, they'll
choose the Java and .Net VMs, not the Perl, Python, or PHP VMs. But
the agility of the dynamic languages and the collaborative energy of
their open source communities are two of the pistons that crank the
engine of progress. These worlds need to converge -- and at the
O'Reilly Open Source Conference there was new evidence that they will.
Jim Hugunin, father of Jython (Python for JVM), made a pair of
dramatic announcements. He has released the first version of
IronPython (Python for CLR/Mono). And by the time you read this, he'll
have started his new job at Microsoft. Good hire! [Full story at
InfoWorld.com]
In my keynote talk at the
Vancouver Python Workshop,
I stressed the strategic importance of integrating dynamic languages
with the Java and .NET runtimes. I've written a lot about dynamic
languages and yet, when asked to define what they are and why they
matter, I struggle. So from now on, I'm going to point people to
this whitepaper by David Ascher, who is the managing director of
ActiveState and led the
development of
Komodo, a
Mozilla-based IDE (integrated development environment) for dynamic
languages.
...Google Definitions in Multiple Languages
Google Definitions in Multiple Languages
04/05/2005 09:35 PMGoogle Blog: Getting wordy. "as of this week, Google Definitions is
multilingual, and is indexing more sources than ever."...
10.3: Panther now supports right to left
languages
10.3: Panther now supports right to left
languages
12/27/2003 05:24 PMI know some people were complaining about how Jaguar only supported
left to right languages. Well, Panther now supports right to left
languages like Hebrew and Arabic in all Cocoa text views. To try this
out go to the inter...
BusinessWire.Com Now Available in Seven
Languages with the Addition of Japanese
BusinessWire.Com Now Available in Seven
Languages with the Addition of Japanese
04/05/2005 06:16 AMZDNet India Apr 5 2005 10:28AM GMT
Event-Registration in multiple Languages
Event-Registration in multiple Languages
01/05/2004 05:37 PMjob-schedule started at sourceforge
KDE/GNU Linux desktop adds more
languages
KDE/GNU Linux desktop adds more
languages
06/11/2004 06:27 AMComputer Weekly Jun 11 2004 11:06AM GMT
Digital race to save languages
Digital race to save languages
03/20/2003 08:33 AMLogicBoxes Unveils 8 New Languages for
Its Interfaces
LogicBoxes Unveils 8 New Languages for
Its Interfaces
12/24/2004 12:19 PMLogicBoxes adds a series of new language packs to the already existing
multi-lingual interface of its flagship product OrderBox V4.2 [PRWEB
Dec 24, 2004]
'Fewer pupils' studying languages
'Fewer pupils' studying languages
09/24/2004 07:21 AMThe number of children in England taking foreign languages at school
has fallen, inspectors find.
Extreme Markup Languages 2004
Extreme Markup Languages 2004
01/01/2004 05:07 PMOriginally announced at XML 2003, the Call for Participation for
Extreme Markup 2004 is now open. The conference will be held from 3-6
August in Montréal, Canada.
"Half of all human languages gone in our
lifetime"
"Half of all human languages gone in our
lifetime"
06/05/2004 09:07 AMGrok Description matches for Languages may get higher profile
GrokA matches for Languages may get higher profile
Languages may get higher profile
