...Haskell had to sully itself with Monads... I/O is the least interesting use of monads. They become truly useful when you want to implement list comprehensions, software transactional memory, ...

Computer languages reflect the goals, target audiences, and to some degree the personalities of their creators and their communities. As a result, even languages that are created with similar goals in ...

For my last session of JavaOne 2012, I elected to attend Emmanuel Bernard‘s and Stephane Epardaud‘s (both of RedHat) “Introduction to Ceylon” presentation held in Hilton Golden Gate 6/7/8. It has ...

Milestone 1 of Ceylon includes a reasonably complete and stable specification and a complete command line toolset (compiler, runtime, documentation compiler). A compatible release of the team’s ...

...languages that are based on "the lambda calculus used only by theoretical computer scientists."" Well, and by web developers and people programming in Visual Basic. :-) Seriously, pretty much every ...

Red Hat has revealed a new programming language called Ceylon that is intended to run on the JVM. Ars takes a look at the syntax and rationale.