Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
Andrew Dupont has a post about Associative Arrays in Javascript. He makes the good point that you shouldn't use the Array object for this functionality, instead use 'Object'. Unfortunately using 'Object' has its own set of pitfalls. Try the following code in your favourite Javascript implementation: var x = {} x["toString"] more →
Termite, the Scheme-based system with Erlang style concurrency, has been released. The Termite paper (pdf) outlines the features of Termite. I've been looking forward to trying this out! more →
Phobos appears to be available for download now. Phobos is the server side javascript system that Sun is making available. Robert Chinnici has a blog outlining features of Phobos and answering the question about why you'd want to use Javascript on the server. more →
The Mt Vic Dojo is having an open day on Sunday 11th June. The day includes demonstrations, free classes, t-shirts and discounts to be won. All the styles that hve their home at the Mt Vic Dojo will be there. These being: more →
There's an interesting post on the Haskell group about Minix and the possibility of writing OS core components in Haskell for it. Minix is an open source operating system that's been around for quite some time. I first tried it out sometime in the early 90's after downloading over some very slow dialup connection connected to a BBS. From the... more →