After ten years in print, our publisher decided against further printings and reverted the rights to us. Elements of Programming is now available in two forms: a free PDF and a no-markup paperback.
Its Time for a New Programming Language
Today, when compared to any other point in programming history, we find ourselves spoiled for choice when it comes to programming…
A break from programming languages
This is a blog post I have been considering writing for a long time.
The Next 7000 Programming Languages
Landin’s seminal paper “The next 700 programming languages” considered programming languages prior to 1966 and speculated on the next 700. Half-a-century on, we cast programming languages in a Darwinian ‘tree of life’ and explore languages, their features (genes) and language evolution from the viewpoint of ‘survival of the fittest’.
The Rust Programming Language - The Rust Programming Language
by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, and Chris Krycho, with contributions from the Rust Community
Nobody Cracks Open a Programming Book Anymore · unix.foo
A sad look at the state of modern programming books.
Knuth: Literate Programming
This book is the first in a series of eight volumes that contain archival forms of my published papers, together with new material.
Reflections on a decade of coding
I've been programming professionally for about 12 years. Here are some of the things I worked on in the last 2 years.
Programming (with AI agents) as theory building
Back in 1985, computer scientist Peter Naur wrote “Programming as Theory Building”. According to Naur — and I agree with him — the core output of software engineers is not the program itself, but the theory of how the program works. In other words, the knowledge inside the engineer’s mind is the primary artifact of engineering work, and the actual software is merely a by-product of that.
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It - …
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Substrates conference series - Substrates 2026
An increasing number of researchers see their work as interactive authoring tools or software substrates for interactive computational media. By talking about “authoring tools”, we remove the divide between programmers and users; “software substrates” let us look beyond conventional programming languages and systems; and “interactive computational media” promises a more malleable and adaptable notion of tools for thought we are striving for. This workshop aims to bring together a wide range of perspectives on these matters.
What Kind of Programming is Natural Language Programming?
In previous posts I’ve written about Natural Language Programming, Dijkstra’s Ghost – the End of The Symbolic Supremacy and Ephemeral Editable Specifications (aka Extract, Edit, A…
Denicek: Computational Substrate for Document-Oriented End-User Programming
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The future of programming and computing
Trends and adjacent possibles for the future of how computers are used and programmed
Programming
SaaS Isn’t Dead. Sameness Is. - The Phoenix Architecture
Codifying a ChatGPT workflow into a malleable GUI
MercuryOS
Telepath's Sensemaking Computer Upends Personal Computing
Vendo · Your product, shaped to every customer
block/buzz
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