Lately I have been working in Erlang (forgive me, Tom), and in particular on a distributed web-based system that exposes much of its functionality over a RESTful interface. The web server has been Yaws and the database Mnesia, both of which are also implemented in Erlang, and are quite complex and interesting...

I have now officially two compiler projects underway based on Erlang concepts. I catalog them here because compilers are code generators and this blog is about generative programming. :) The first is project, to be written in F# and its compiler tools, is to create a functional variant of the BASIC language...

Percolating in my mind for many a moon has been an idea of creating a language/runtime that I have called by various names; Muse has been its most recent identifier, named after the divine inspiration of Homer's great epic poem, The Odyssey . She is invoked in its first line: "Tell me, Muse...

Life has taught me, and my wife's wisdom has confirmed, that if you start early, you just might finish on time. Since I've never tried it before, but have been victimized many times by its converse, I'm taking this on faith, guided by experience. ;) In that spirit I am thinking now about...