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Steve Yegge at Google talks about the features of the Next Big Language. He apparantly has inside information about the language corporates are likely to make a big push for. The comments seem to suggest Javascript 2.

Paul Graham on picking a computer language. Excellent read.

Jeff Duntemann argues that the reason for security problems is C/C++, not Microsoft.

Excellent article by Paul Graham on great hackers.

Proce55ing: “context for exploring emerging conceptual space…” Looks like a modern graphic programming language to me. Neat, but not a quantum leap. “The Unbearable Lightness of being a Pixel” is an interesting exhibit, though (for its name, not for content).

US high school seniors can’t read Perl. Not even a simple DeCSS program (obufuscated, of course).

Hello, world.

Microsoft dumps Java. Doesn’t worry me to much. I’ve never had much use for Java as a user. They’ve ‘adopted’ Perl, though. And I was always a Perl fan.