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Coding Cool with Fan!
10 August 09 11:18 AM | CSharpener | 1 comment(s)

The most exciting new programming language I have seen in quite some time is the new Fan language . I recommend reading Why Fan and taking the Tour to have get a quick grasp of what Fan offers. Then Download Fan and StartHere ! Why am I so enthusiastic...

Filed under: [.NET General], [Languages], [Software Architecture], [SoftDev], [JavaScript], [CLR], [Ruby], [Smalltalk], [.NET], [Fan]

SmallScript is dead! Long live SmallScript!
08 July 09 11:36 AM | CSharpener | 1 comment(s)

In a previous post, Before it becomes famous , I posted about S#, or SmallScript, a SmallTalk variant that was being designed that was supposed to have a version that might have worked on .NET. Now, it seems that project has pretty much died out. David...

Filed under: [.NET General], [Languages], [Tools], [WebDev], [SoftDev], [Smalltalk], [.NET]

[.NET C#] Unified C# 3.0 Specification
12 September 07 08:34 AM | CSharpener | with no comments

The C# team at csharp-online.net has a download link for a consolidated document presenting the Unified C# 3.0 Specification , which brings together all prior C# specs with the latest version. It weighs in at slightly over 500 pages, but looks to be the...

Filed under: [.NET General], [.NET C#], [Languages], [Reference], [SoftDev], [.NET]

[Laws] John Tobler's Fun-duh-mental Laws and Rules
13 April 06 03:55 PM | CSharpener | with no comments

Now that I have three laws and a corollary under my belt, it's time to start my list: John Tobler's Fun-duh-mental Laws and Rules Keep watching, I'm sure the list will grow!

Filed under: [.NET General], [.NET C#], [Languages], [Reference], [Human Factor], [Articles], [SoftDev], [Refactoring], [General], [ASP.NET], [Laws]

[Languages] LSharp, a new .NET Lisp-like scripting language
27 February 06 08:04 AM | CSharpener | with no comments

From the ancestral line of Lisp, we now have another new scripting language for .NET. LSharp "uses a Lisp dialect similar to Arc." LSharp is Open Source (GPL). More information is available on Rob Blackwell's Web Log .

Filed under: [.NET General], [Languages], [Tools], [SoftDev]

[Languages] Zonnon, a new .NET language
27 February 06 07:58 AM | CSharpener | with no comments

Descending from the heritage of Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon, Zonnon is a new language for .NET. According to the Zonnon website, "It retains an emphasis on simplicity, clear syntax and separation of concerns whilst focusing on concurrency and ease of...

Filed under: [.NET General], [Languages], [Tools], [SoftDev]