This is the fourth post of my notes from Emerging Languages Camp last year. If you haven’t seen it already, you might want to read the Introduction to this series. Nimrod: A new approach to meta programming Andreas Rumpf Homepage · Slides · Presentation Nimrod's creator, Andreas Rumpf, describes the language as a statically typed, systems programming language with clean syntax and strong meta-programming. It compiles to C. He said it had a "realtime GC," but if you look at the Nimrod relea...

This is the third post of my notes from Emerging Languages Camp last year. If you haven’t seen it already, you might want to read the Introduction to this series. Noether: Symmetry in Programming Language Design Daira Hopwood Slides · Presentation I found this presentation to be at once fascinating and frustrating. It was the single best talk at ELC in terms of changing how I think about programming languages. To whatever degree I went to ELC in order to learn and change my thinking about ...

In this exciting installment of my notes from Emerging Languages Camp last year, some information about the Daimio and Babel programming languages. If you haven't seen it already, you might want to read the Introduction to this series. Daimio: A Language for Sharing Dann Toliver Homepage · Presentation · Slides Daimio Is a domain-specific language for customization of web applications. Dann Toliver, the presernter, says that web applications should be extensible and extensions should be sh...

Emerging Languages Camp is an all day event held before Strange Loop. There were 11 presentations on new and unusual programming languages in varying stages of development. Production-ready languages like C#, Ruby, Clojure, and Haskell don't just spring to life out of nothing. There exists a historical context of major language families (Algol, LISP, ML, etc.) as well as a "primordial soup" of amateur, research, and proof-of-concept experiments which allow for features well outside the patter...