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C++ is a general-purpose programming language, not necessarily suitable for your special purpose.

That's the most succinct expression of what the site is about :)

By Srikumar Subramanian at 2009-05-11 06:58 | LtU Forum | 18 comments | other blogs | 7847 reads

WolframAlpha

I'm not sure what WolframAlpha exactly does, but Stephen Wolfram's post about it definitely has my ears all perked up for its launch ... which should be any time soon.

By Srikumar Subramanian at 2009-05-11 08:46 | LtU Forum | 31 comments | other blogs | 8602 reads

Axum - A .NET language for safe, scalable and productive parallel programming through isolation, actors and message-passing

Microsoft just released a new concurrent programming language for the .NET platform called Axum:

Axum is a language that builds upon the architecture of the Web and principles of isolation, actors, and message-passing to increase application safety, responsiveness, scalability, and developer productivity.

Other advanced concepts we are exploring are data flow networks, asynchronous methods, and type annotations for taming side-effects.

Via Slashdot.

By yang at 2009-05-11 18:42 | LtU Forum | 4 comments | other blogs | 6472 reads