If you were designing a general purpose programming language today, what major features and constraints do you think are necessary? Let's constrain (heh) ourselves to languages that might compete with ...

Why shouldn’t those “interfaces” be humanely designed? Let that sink in. Programming languages are tools, designed by people for a specific purpose. What this study showed is that the design of this ...

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You want to build a website or web app. So, what are the best web programming languages available, and why are they the best? It's a weighty question, and I'd like to emphasize -- strongly and upfront ...