Articles about programming

Another year, another Erlang conference
Bijan Parsia
Erlang, the Smalltalk of functional programming (in pleasure production), the Java thereof (for marketing).
21 June 2000

File Format Info Galore
Bijan Parsia
A web site, with search engine, collecting details about "all the file formats you've ever heard of...and then some".
1 June 2000

Is this a computer speaking?
Bijan Parsia
AT&T advances the state of the art of text-to-speech.
20 May 2000

A little mail database history
Bijan Parsia
As a followup to Niel's explorations of archiving mail in databases, a few pointers to Xerox PARC publiciations.
12 May 2000

Squeak Smalltalk: A Quick Reference
Kendall Clark
Smalltalk is my 3rd favorite language I don't know well yet, behind only Common Lisp and Dylan. If you're trying to learn Squeak too, this is a good reference work.
23 February 2000

Minor amusing juxtaposition
Bijan Parsia
Our Author finds an Amusing Relevant Quote after writing his Last Article.
24 April 2000

"A major, perhaps foolhardy, undertaking. "---JEmacs Paper
Bijan Parsia
Per Bothner's Usenix paper detailing JEmacs.
24 April 2000

A Prime Time PyUnit
Bijan Parsia
Finally, someone finishes a port of S/JUnit--Kent Beck's unit testing framework, to Python.
19 April 2000

How To Market Yourself
Niel Bornstein
Advice for the contract programmer.
19 March 2000

A "PG-13" version of Logo
Bijan Parsia
Updated, crossplatform, Java implemention of StarLogo, a "a programmable modeling environment for exploring the workings of decentralized systems".
10 March 2000

'X' marks the Smalltalk
Bijan Parsia
Update to Smalltalk/X, a cool, unusual Smalltalk system with C compilation and Java integration.
9 March 2000

Remembrance Agent Rocks!
Kendall Clark
Remembrance Agent watches you and remembers what you do.
2 March 2000

The Craft of Text Editing
Bijan Parsia
An online book about the nuts and bolts of writing a text editor.
1 March 2000

Kawa updated; JEmacs advances
Bijan Parsia
Per Bothner releases version 1.6.64 of his Kawa system (mainly a Scheme compiler for the JVM) with lots of JEmacs improvements.
1 March 2000

RSI Awareness Day
Niel Bornstein
My hands hurt.
29 February 2000

PerDiS: Persistent Distributed Store
Kendall Clark
PerDiS is a persistent distributed object store.
18 February 2000