E' notizia fresca di stampa il rilascio di Tcl 8.6, che introduce parecchie novità a dispetto del fatto che sia una "minor" release.

 

In particolatre Tcl 8.6 introduce un motore "stackless", integra nel linguaggio le estensioni OOP, ed aggiunge le coroutine.

Parliamo quindi diffusamente di Tcl, un linuaggio che ho sempre trascurato perché mi sembrava macchinoso e un po' brutto/fatto  male...ma mi sono dovuto ricredere.

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Erlang is a great language.

[2019-UPDATE] Erlang 22 is OUT, so I wanna to come to the party!

On April 2015, Erlang father's Joe Armstrong give us a very interesting lesson I want to tell about.

There was a long thread titled "Erlang and Akka, The Sequel" on the erlang mailing list, reasoning about the need of some standard pattern on Promises and Future. A lot of JavaScript libraries deal about that (also jQuery has its implementation). I want to report the Joe Amstrong reply because it give us a very clear understanding on the reason Erlang is different and you should at least try it once.

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Today I took a light rail with my son, to bring him to school. That tram is 90 years old. It has been maintained for 90 years. Milan city sold some of them to San Francisco too.

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In the 1980 comments were used to reduce the "gap" between unstructured code and "rationale" behind the code.

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GraalVM is a universal virtual machine for running applications written in JavaScript, Python, Ruby, R, JVM-based languages like Java, Scala, Kotli

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I have done a quick peek of the Rust Programming language: it is very popular on Internet, it rivals with Go on the popularity score.

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I think constants are evil (just joking but....I will explain why).

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On these days I stumbled upon Forth, a 1970 programming language which is quite similar to HP48 internal programming language.

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Modern computer are very very very fast. C/64 was about 1Mhz and you can hangs it just throwing a 10.000 cycle in interpreted BASIC v2 language.

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Test driven development is a beast to tame. I like TDD but in the past it was quite difficult to achive, at least in a pure-consultant approach with a "turn key" framework behind.

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