Thursday, April 28, 2016

REBOL

REBOL (Relative Expression Based Object Language, an acronym that somehow evokes the TARDIS to me) seems to be a language that has a lot of the semantic aspirations that Decl does. Interesting!

Friday, April 22, 2016

Alda: yet another music language

Music in Clojure, apparently.

6 lesser-known Python data handling libraries

There is just a lot of neat stuff in Pyworld. Data handling, for instance.

wftk again?

So here's a neat little checklist management system that sure looks a lot like the original goals for the wftk back in 2000: Checklistomania. [github][hnn]

As usual, I have the inchoate feeling that none of this would be a tenth as challenging in Decl. I should work on Decl.

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Programming games

That is, games that involve programming (including Stockfighter) - cool post.

System design cheatsheet

Interesting.

Futhark

Futhark is a special-purpose language for specifying GPU operations that can then be embedded in a driver program running on the regular CPU. This is really pretty cool.

Sunday, April 3, 2016

Book: Procedural Content Generation in Games

Looks interesting.

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

The OCCRP is another of those data journalism efforts that make me drool. Text analysis, oooh.