Dr. Dobb's Journal: January 2006 -- Programming Languages

"The Return of Tiny Basic," by Tom Pittman. Tom updates one of the first implementations of the langauge that launched an industry. ***** "Thoughts On Language Design," by Guy L. Steele Jr. Guy Steele, an engineer who knows something about designing programming languages, explains why new challenges require new solutions. ***** "Recursive Descent, Tail Recursion, and the Dreaded Double Divide," by Truck Smith. What can you do when the wrong answer turns out to be right? ***** "Transforming XML and the REXML Pull Parser, " by James Britt. James uses Ruby and its built-in XML pull parser for an alternative approach to XML transformations. ***** "PHP and Preprocessed Web Pages, " by Betsy Gamrat. Preprocessing lets you deliver complex web pages lightning fast, and in an cost-effective manner. ***** "The Java Location API," by David Parsons. When it comes to real estate and mobile phones, the three most important words are "location, location, location." ***** "Cocoa Memory Management," by Jose R.C. Cruz. Cocoa, a Macintosh application development framework, has a memory management scheme that's different from that of Java or C++. ***** "The Eclipse Visual Editor," by David Orme and Joe Winchester. The Eclipse Visual Editor is an Eclipse tools sub-project that provides a framework for creating Eclipse-based GUI builders.***** And More!