Mizukko learns English on MetaFilter

A depressive's dictionary

Design principles for notations, user interfaces or programming languages.

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A new language with high aspirations

Concurrency and message passing in modern language design

Hashmaps as functions as hashmaps as

Online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages

Programming language comparisons and reference guides

A history of Barbie's infamous sound byte.

Lexicography is hard. Let's go shopping!

Io is a dynamic prototype-based programming language inspired by Smalltalk, Self, NewtonScript, Act1, Lisp and Lua.

Official site for Rasmus Andersson's new Javascript veneer

Rasmus Andersson wrote a programming language

A dataflow programming language designed by Bill Wadge and Ed Ashcroft; introduces the idea of variables as "streams" of values.

Best API documentation. Ever.

Guy L. Steele Jr's stresses that it "should not be the programmer’s job to think about parallelism, but languages should provide ways to transparently run tasks in parallel." He demonstrates that associative divide-and-conquer (map-reduce) algorithms can be parallelized automatically.

A selector language with a JSON interface for HTML scraping

Haskell on bare iron

List of desirable language features