What is the Forth programming language?

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’.

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…

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…

A break from programming languages

This is a blog post I have been considering writing for a long time.

Learn C • Build Your Own Lisp

If you're looking to learn C, or you've ever wondered how to build your own programming language, this is the book for you.

ZigCool

I can’t think of any other language in my 45 years long career that surprised more than Zig. I can easily say that Zig is not only a new programming language, but it’s a totally new way to write programs, in my opinion. To say it’s merely a language to replace C or C++, it’s a huge understatement.

Rust Programming Language

A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

The Rust Programming Language - The Rust Programming Language

by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, and Chris Krycho, with contributions from the Rust Community

madhadron - The seven programming ur-languages

I regularly hear people asking which programming language to learn, and then reeling off a list of very similar languages (“Should I learn Java, C#, C++, Python, or Ruby?”). In response I usually tell them that it doesn’t really matter, as long as they get started. There are fundamentals behind them.

The Return of Language-Oriented Programming | Middle of Nowhere

I’ve been wondering what LLMs mean for language design and implementation. Some believe that, because language models are obviously trained on existing content, they are inherently less capable of assisting users with new programming languages. Intuitively this makes sense. However:

Coeffects: Context-aware programming languages

Interactive essay that explains theory of coeffects and lets you type-check and run sample programs.

R for cats · and cat lovers

This is an introduction to R. I promise this will be fun. Since you have never used a programming language before, or any language for that matter, you won’t be tainted by other programming languages with different ways of doing things. This is good - we can teach you the R way of doing things.

LLMs as Collaborators in Language Specification and Design (PLSS 2026) - SPLASH/ISSTA 2026

Workshop on Programming Language Standardization and Specification This workshop aims to foster cross-pollination between researchers and industry professionals with experience in programming language specification and standardization. It provides a forum where participants can share insights, case studies, and best practices, and collaboratively explore solutions to current challenges. The goal of the workshop is to improve the collective understanding of how programming languages are specified, standardized, and evolved in practice. The workshop examines specifications as the foundation ...

RFC: Programming Languages Course Reboot, 2026