Programming Language Notes

On the Sun website, there's an interview with Guy Steele. He talks a little bit about Fortress, which tries to make programs looks more the original problem domain by allowing more mathematical notation. I will be interested to see the results.

Guy Steele is also the principal investigator for the Programming Language Research group. On that page there is a paper titled Object-Oriented Units of Measurement. It's a look the issues involved in making units work in a Java-like OO language.

The last note is an ACM Queue article by Gregory Wilson about Extensible Programming. The article points out that there are advantages to storing the program text in a more structured form, including being able to include diagrams or math notation in the source code.