Red Hat engineer Gavin King, the creator of Hibernate, is developing a new programming language for enterprise software development. His team at Red Hat has apparently been working on the grammar in ...

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 ...

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 ...

...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, ...

...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.