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What language?

Posted Jul 18, 2011, by Colin Walls

I have always been interested in programming languages. The first one I used, way back when I was at university, was FORTRAN [4, not 77]. I then moved on to do a bit of assembly, BCPL, a few flavors of Algol, Simula 67, SNOBOL 4 – just about everything that was around at the time, except COBOL. Later, in the course of my career as a software engineer, I came back to FORTRAN and assembly, then … Read More

Tags: Java, Programming Languages, C

C, C++ and the family tree

Posted Jan 4, 2010, by Colin Walls

I am interested in programming languages in general and particularly as they apply to embedded systems programming. I have written about this topic before, but I wanted to revisit it and consider the issues from another angle. The most popular programming language for embedded continues to be C. Clearly it offers the capabilities and facilities that most developers need today, but what comes next? I … Read More

Tags: Programming Languages, C, Java, EDGE Compiler