Programming

Interests

This is a place for me to keep links to sites I want to spend more time perusing.

• Amit's site-Good game AI sources.
• Game Research and Technology-Nice collection of AI articles and resources.
• NEC ResearchIndex-Great index of downloadable research papers.
• AOSD-Aspect-Oriented software development information.
• PortlandPatternRepository-Design pattern documentation and examples.
• LMCS-Logical Methods in Computer Science.

Other various code I'm looking at for one reason or another.

• Boost-A C++ library with built-in python wrapper.
• Torch-An impressive looking, GPL'd machine learning library.
• FFLL-Free Fuzzy Logic Library [sf].
• Brainiac-AI personality system.
• Spread-Distributed system message passing. [python wrapper]
• Alice-A promising offspring of the Mozart/Oz project/language.

Primary Tools

Python is my current language du jour. I use it at work and in my current project.

• Python Language Home Page-My favorite language.
• Vaults of Parnassus-Python Resources.
• Python.faqts-Good source for Python docs, info, etc.
• Python-URL!-Python news.
• Stackless Python-Python w/o the C stack.
• Pyrex-Very promising new python extension language.
• PyGame-Python game library. [code repository]
• FAQ / IAQ-Python (in)frequently asked questions.
• IPython-An enhanced Interactive Python shell.
• Leo-An outlining programmer's editor and more. [sf.net]
• PyPy-Python in Python.
• Python Starship-Python community site.

Esoteric Languages

I really enjoy researching new languages. I'm not sure why... just something I do when I'm bored or frustrated with my current crop of tools. I really need to reorganize this page. I'm finding more and more interesting languages as of late.

• Timeline/History of 50 computer language.
• Hanoimania-Tower of Hanoi solvers in >100 languages.
• Shape Examples-Inheritance and polymorphism [more examples].
• Langsmiths-An eclectic collections of experimental languages.
• 99 bottles of beer-in over 600 languages.
• The Great Computer Language Shootout-45+ Languages/28 benchmarks.
• Scutigena-Another language benchmarking site.

• Io-Small prototype-based language.
• Nemerle-Hybrid language for .net.
• Scala-Functional/Objective language that runs on .net or jvm.
• Heron-Another interesting new imperative language.
• Felix-Interesting new work by John Skaller.
• Maude-A language based on equational and rewriting logic.
• Alice-Another offspring of the Mozart/Oz project/language.
• XL-An EXTENSIBLE programming language.
• Mono-.Net clone.
• Nice-A functional OO lang, based on java.
• Needle-Another OO functional language.
• GOO-A promising new find.
• Arc-A (very) new dialect of lisp [ArcHub].
• Merd-An interesting looking language.
• Ruby-Offspring of Smalltalk and Perl.
• Squeak-Full smalltalk-80 system.
• Icon-Never caught on... but interesting.
• schemers.org-All things scheme.
• Common-Lisp.net-Common Lisp community site.
• bigFORTH-Potentially a good forth compiler & enviroment.
• Tiny C Compiler-Optimized for compilation speed.
• Functional Languages
• • Mercury-A cool logic/functional language. [ftp]
  • Caml-dialect of the functional language ML (ugly syntax).
  • • Objective Caml-Nicest Caml version.
    • OCaml Contributions-Freshmeat for OCaml.
    • Caml Development Kit-A set of useful tools and libraries for OCaml.
    • Caml Humps-Contributions for Caml.
  • Haskell-Pure functional language.
  • Erlang-Concurrent/Functional language. [Erlang-Projects]
  • Mozart-Oz-Interesting multi-paradigm language.
• Reflective and MetaProgramming Systems/Languages
• • Mozart-So called 'Concept Programming' development framework.
  • Pliant-Powerful meta-programming/programming language.
  • Tunes-Project to create a reflective computer.

Prolog

Prolog is my favorite language from school and I'm thinking of getting back into it. Thus some related links.

• SWI-Prolog-Good Edinburgh-style Prolog.
• Gnu Prolog-Respectable prolog compiler.
• YAP-High performance Prolog compiler.
• Ciao Prolog-I've got to mess with this one.
• Logtalk-OO Prolog extension.
• comp.lang.prolog-Prolog newsgroup.
• Prolog Book-Logic, Programming and Prolog (2ed).
• Guide-Online prolog programming guide.
• Amzi Books-Online books and tutorials.
• prolog :- tutorial-Well recommended.

Web Related

• XMLRPC-The xmlrpc home page.
• Zope-Least suckie web application server.
• W3 Org-The makers of the HTML standard.
• The HTML Writers Guild Website
• The Common Gateway Interface-CGI documentation.
• Webreference.com-Webmasters Reference Library.
• DynamicDrive-Dynamic HTML site.