[Discussion] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

So finally we reach the end of the course, we have been learning a lot of things and today I will talk particularly about the book we red in class: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The first thing I must say about the book is that it’s completly oriented to geeks or to anyone who enjoys reading...

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[Discussion] Technical Overview of the Common Language Runtime

Hello, this time I would like to discuss a paper written by Erik Meijer and Jim Miller, Microsoft employee’s whose work is related to the Common Language Runtime. The paper is called Technical Overview of the Common Language Runtime and it can be found here. The main topic of the paper is about the...

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[Discussion] Language Design and Implementation using Ruby and the Interpreter Pattern

Today I’m writing an interesting review, it is about a paper published by our class professor, Ariel Ortiz R.. Language Design and Implementation using Ruby and the Interpreter Pattern is the name of the paper, you can find it here[1]. This paper is particularly interesting for me because it involves...

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[Discussion] Compile-Time Metaprogramming

This time I listened the Software Engineering Podcast, Episode 57: Compile-Time Metaprogramming[1] where Laurence Tratt was present as guest. Although the episode focuses in the Converge programming language (created by Tratt), it has some significant topics of general interest for the listeners. To...

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[Discussion] The mother of compilers

This post entry is an opinion about two resources: the article Grace Hopper - The Mother of Cobol[1] and the video documentary The Queen of Code[2]. Grace Hopper is the one who created the Cobol language. She was a mathematician and became a Navy Admiral in her young age. It is said that she also coined...

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[Discussion] Internals of GCC

Today I was listening the episode 61[1] of the Software Engineering Radio where Morgan Deters was present as a guest. Basically Deters explains in a very general way how the GNU Compiler Collection is constructed. I only knew the very basics of gcc, mainly because I use it every time I want to compile...

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[Discussion] The hundread-years programming language

This blog post is my personal opinion after reading the article "The Hundread-Year Language" written by Paul Graham in his website [1]. Can you imagine how is the future going to be? As we can see from now, it is more than probabble that computers will still be one of the main tools for industries...

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[Discussion] Making Compiler Design Relevant for Students who will (Most Likely) Never Design a Compiler

This are my impressions about the article Making Compiler Design Relevant for Students who will (Most Likely) Never Design a Compiler written by Saumya Debray, teacher of the department of Computer Science in the University of Arizona. The article talks about, –as the title suggest compiler design...

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Introducing myself

Undergraduate student of BSc in Computer Science. Technology: I love programming, mostly web applications. I have no "main language" but the ones where I feel more comfortable are Javascript and Ruby. Most of my programming career I have been using Java so I know it quite well. I am influenced by agile...

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