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  Future (programming) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In computer science, a future (also known as a promise in the programming languages E and Alice) is a proxy for a result that is not yet known, usually because the computation of its value has not yet completed.
The future construct was introduced in 1977 in a paper by Henry Baker and Carl Hewitt.
The future construct became better known by its inclusion in programming languages such as MultiLisp and Act1.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Future_(programming)   (339 words)

  
 The Hundred-Year Language
Any programming language can be divided into two parts: some set of fundamental operators that play the role of axioms, and the rest of the language, which could in principle be written in terms of these fundamental operators.
There may be tasks that we solve now by writing programs and which in a hundred years you won't have to write programs to solve, but I think there will still be a good deal of programming of the type that we do today.
It may not be quite true that the shortest program is the least work to write, but it's close enough that you're better off aiming for the solid target of brevity than the fuzzy, nearby one of least work.
www.paulgraham.com /hundred.html   (4626 words)

  
 ARSH: Guidelines (for future programming/planning indicating stakeholders)
Therefore it has to be central to ARSH programming and planning to include effective and long-lasting girls and women empowerment strategies.
Future ARSH planning and programming should take these issues into account and include comprehensive empowerment and advocacy components.
ARSH advocacy programming in Pakistan is in its early stages.
www.unescobkk.org /index.php?id=3612   (720 words)

  
 Future - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In this sense the future is opposed to the past (the set of moments and events that have already occurred) and the present (the set of events that are occurring now).
In grammar, the future is a tense or a mood used to refer to events that have yet to happen.
For example, French has a true future tense j'aimerai, tu aimeras, il aimera, "he will love" (from aimer, to like and il a, he has, so it's literally "He has to love"), but the future is most commonly expressed with the verb aller as an auxiliary: je vais aimer, tu vas aimer, il va aimer.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Future   (855 words)

  
 Advogato's Number: The Future of Programming
On the other hand, a program running as root which sits on port 1234, accumulates the text passed to it from a given connection, and calls system() on the text when the connection closes, is a reasonably well defined program, but which is a huge security hole.
So, the tools I want to see in the future (and part of what I'm working on now in Figure) are improved ways of literate programming that allow documentation of multiple layers of intent to be attached to source code, providing a proof that the code satisfies the intent.
I am not an expert programmer, nor I learned programming by attending classes, so my theoretical knowledge of programming language research is almost null, but I think that an idea like the one embodied by declarative programming would be great to help reducing most of the problems that we have with the existing languages.
www.advogato.org /article/120.html   (9105 words)

  
 The Future of Programming
Perhaps the early days of programming computers by flicking switches and feeding in punched cards is closest to that dance, but it is still a level of abstraction that permitted us to communicate with our lovingly created inanimate servants.
The programs that form their 'real' existence have to understand data in the same way we see things, and respond to changes (like movement) forced on them by their environment.
Virtual people assemble 'programs' (which are virtual artefacts really) from components and raw materials with certain properties, perhaps applying filters like textures and plugging in data storage blocks and defining triggers for patterns of behaviour.
www.voidspace.org.uk /python/articles/object_shaped_future.shtml   (3021 words)

  
 Dr. Dobb's | The Future of Programming | July 22, 2001
However, programming is undoubtedly easier today than it was in the past, and the latter two principles of programming and programmers explain why.
Programming became easier because the software industry was motivated to make it so, and because lazy and impatient programmers wouldn't accept anything less.
The introduction of Fortran in 1957 was a watershed in the history of programming languages because it was the first high-level language that was a truly practical alternative to assembly language.
www.ddj.com /184404378   (3492 words)

  
 Future Of Programming Languages
Eventually, the language of the future will evolve beyond edit-compile-run-debug and move in a to commercial special-purpose systems like VB and LabView - programming in which the procedural and declarative code may not be in pure text form (in VbClassic, the declarative code is graphical, while in GeeLanguage of LabView, the procedural code is graphical).
The language of the future will be like a chemist's version of AssemblyLanguage, because we'll mainly be programming nanomachines, and the available resources and sophistication of the CPU will once again be sparse.
The future of programming languages is not a language.
c2.com /cgi/wiki?FutureOfProgrammingLanguages   (5961 words)

  
 Alarming Development » Blog Archive » The future of programming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The connections in the program are made in a mindmapping kind of fashion, and the ide aggregates the code from your input into any language it’s been built to understand.
I dont discredit attempts to streamline programming, infact most of my work is of this nature, but experience has taught me the micro-refinement of processes is going to have little impact when the other side of the spectrum is so fundamentally flawed.
Programming is hard, not because it is abstract but because its abstract in a way that our brains did not evolve to handle with ease.
alarmingdevelopment.org /index.php?p=6   (9988 words)

  
 Programming in the future - LinuxQuestions.org
For example, it does not tie in with Java that you program specifically for one real architecture, you program for a fake common architecture, that is then is translated by people having programmed for the real architecture.
It good for what its for, low-level programming; the reason it is fast is not solely because of the language, but because it converted (compiled) into machine code.
Or maybe in a few decades we wont even have programming languages anymore you'll just be able to tell the computer what you want it to do verbally and it will do it in a star trekish way.
www.linuxquestions.org /questions/showthread.php?t=151454   (2137 words)

  
 ongoing · Language Fermentation
This may be the golden age of programming, as Paul Graham argues, and maybe everything we thought we knew about strong typing is wrong.
I'm enjoying both of my programming lives, but whichever half of my brain it is that programming uses has I suspect split into two mutually incompatible quarters that aren't talking to each other.
There are is some (small) number of people who have to write low-level webserver code, and if you've ever done this under the gun of a million-hits-a-day load, you quickly become a control freak with an insane desire to remove as many as possible of the layers which separate your code from the silicon.
www.tbray.org /ongoing/When/200x/2003/05/08/FutureLanguage   (1627 words)

  
 Code of Conduct
The project's manager was "a tin-pot dictator" who pounded the table as he abused his programming staff, Beck recalls, blaming them for problems that were systemic.
He calls it extreme programming (XP), and it has attracted acolytes around the world.
Beck has written a manifesto called Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change and has founded a nonprofit, the Three Rivers Institute, in Merlin, Oregon, to spread the XP gospel.
www.fastcompany.com /online/51/future_programming.html   (339 words)

  
 FICCI-Frames2001 - Satellite TV: Future Trends
The session on Satellite TV: The Future Trend towards the end of the convention came out with a very positive picture about the television industry in India.
"Maybe in a year or so, the programming format will come back to a weekly schedule." According to her forecast, the future will belong to live shows where the host will have a live audience in front of him, where spontaneity will take centrestage.
In future, content is no doubt going to rule, but it will be a low cost content he said.
www.indiantelevision.com /special/ficci3.htm   (1045 words)

  
 The Future of Programming: ACM Crossroads interviews Paul Graham (reddit.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
To think that the 'future is dynamic' might be a somewhat one-dimensional viewpoint.
I totally agree with this, but the future of programming is more than just dynamic optimization.
Oh, and the theme of rest of the issue is "Programming Languages", so you might want to check it out as well.
programming.reddit.com /info/4xsg/comments   (2991 words)

  
 JetBrains onBoard Online Magazine :: Language Oriented Programming: The Next Programming Paradigm
It is not yet fully formed—different parts have different names: Intentional programming, MDA, generative programming, etc. I suggest uniting all of these new approaches under one name, ‘language-oriented programming’, and this article explains the main principles of this new programming paradigm.
First I will show what is wrong with mainstream programming today, then I'll explain the concept of LOP by using the example of my existing implementation, the Meta Programming System (MPS).
Programmers are restricted because they are heavily dependent on programming infrastructure which they cannot easily change, namely the languages and environments that they use.
www.onboard.jetbrains.com /articles/04/10/lop   (815 words)

  
 Dr. Dobb's | Paradigms Past and Future | July 22, 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
R.K. Livesley, in his little book about programming the Manchester computer in the 1950s, cautions the reader that some of our favorite desk calculator algorithms may be ridiculously inappropriate when implemented on a computer.
The future in C programming environments, for example, seems to include a C++ front end.
Two products that have come across my desk recently, neither of which is a programming language, but both of which include programming languages, seem particularly catholic in their embracing of alternative paradigms.
www.ddj.com /184408076   (2141 words)

  
 Envisioning the Programming Language of the Future Dev Source - Find Articles
Microsoft developer division architect Herb Sutter told attendees of the OOPSLA 2004 conference here that he couldn't predict the names of the most prominent programming languages of 2014, but he had a good idea of the characteristics of those languages.
Sutter said the top future programming languages will blend existing "concrete" languages with virtual platforms.
As a result, developers will be less likely to repeat mistakes or lose the strengths of existing programming languages, he said.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zddvs/is_200410/ai_n7181594   (455 words)

  
 The Future of Programming: An Interview with Paul Graham
ACM / Crossroads / Xrds12-3 / The Future of Programming: An Interview with Paul Graham
In the following interview Graham discusses the future of programming, outsourcing, and Y Combinator.
Of course as soon as his grad students got hold of this theoretical construct and turned it into an actual programming language, that plan came to a halt.
www.acm.org /crossroads/xrds12-3/paulgraham.html   (1637 words)

  
 Future of programming languages - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This post is, at it's base, a suggestion for design of programming languages to support SIMD instructions.
All you need is creation of float4, float3, float4x4, int4x4, or any similiar type or just create the required functions to manipulate directly on the various variables.
So you can write a loada programs, and have the runtime compiler installed to generate the most optimal code for the hardware you have installed.
www.gamedev.net /community/forums/viewreply.asp?ID=1422226   (887 words)

  
 DIRECTV VP Discusses Interactive TV, HDTV & Future Programming
Interactive programming, high definition and other features are tailor-made for NFL broadcasts.
By “advanced features” I assume you mean the ability to mark a segment in a movie or in a sports program for future viewing.
It affects our programming because it’s another area to be competitive in.
www.nds.com /worldvision/thirty/article_3.html   (1227 words)

  
 Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications
Before joining Microsoft in 1991, Dr. Rashid was a professor for 12 years at Carnegie-Mellon University and is best known for his work in developing the Mach operating system, which is the basic kernel underlying MacOS 10 and several commercial versions of Unix.
New tools for program specification, program analysis, program proof, and testing are coming out of the laboratory and into practice.
My talk will address these changes and look at how they will affect the way we think of programming over the next 10 years.
www.oopsla.org /2004/ShowEvent.do?id=801   (246 words)

  
 NUTV may expand future programming, Observer Online (01-16-2003), Northwestern University
The new NUTV system in undergraduate residence halls may feature campus programming of news, lectures, concerts, sports and other events in the future.
A future planned version of the system will use 6 million bits per second, exceeding the quality of present cable programming.
They can make the picture window as big or as small as they want on their computer screens and can watch TV programs while performing other functions on their computers.
www.northwestern.edu /observer/issues/2003-01-16/nutv.html?printable   (450 words)

  
 Programming the future network
There also must be controlling software, known as the host program, and external media to provide speech recognition and other enhanced-services functions.
Under the control of the host program, programmable switches process calls and perform all kinds of intervention functions, such as play prompts and perform credit-card checks, says Peter Carlino, business development director for Summa Four.
He contributes to assessing the future direction of the OSS technologies and architectures, product development and innovation, industry analysis and thought leadership.
telephonyonline.com /mag/telecom_programming_future_network   (2964 words)

  
 QB45 Programming Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This month, SJ Zero tells us "How to Design and Program a Game in 24 Hours" and gives us a "Polemic For the Future of FB." Previewed in the gallery this month are: LONG by Lachie Dazdarian, a new Super Smash Bros. Clone and FieldView by Z!re.
Quadratic (Miscellaneous) - This is a math program that will solve A X^2 + B X + C equation.
Atom Stick (Miscellaneous) - This program demonstrates rigid body dynamics with bonds between each of the molecules.
www.qb45.com   (1245 words)

  
 FTPOnline - VSLive! Toronto 2006 - The Future of Programming Languages
Toronto 2006 - The Future of Programming Languages
Developers are rapidly approaching a tipping point in programming languages.
Looming on the horizon are dynamically typed languages such as Python and Ruby.
www.ftponline.com /channels/net/reports/vsliveto/2006/lam   (181 words)

  
 The Father of C# on the Past, Present and Future of Programming
The Father of C# on the Past, Present and Future of Programming
My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impedance mismatch we have between programming languages, C# in particular, and the database world, like SQL — or, for that matter, the XML world, like XQuery and those languages that exist there.
So from that I take away that when you're learning to program in C#, you're actually not just learning to program in C#.
www.microsoft-watch.com /article2/0,2180,1837433,00.asp   (1055 words)

  
 Envisioning the Programming Language of the Future
Techniques that have proven successful in enterprise authentication have trouble taking hold in the consumer space.
HP Looks to Nature for Data Center of the Future
The systems manufacturer looks to the patterns and flows found in nature to identify new designs and strategies for data centers.
www.microsoft-watch.com /article2/0,1995,1684698,00.asp   (898 words)

  
 Beyond Java: A Glimpse at the Future of Programming Languages
Beyond Java: A Glimpse at the Future of Programming Languages
In Beyond Java, Tate offers an honest assessment of why Java has been such a powerful tool, showing the ways in which it has advanced the art of computer programming.
Could any of them become the next "big new thing?" What will the tools of the future look like?
press.oreilly.com /pub/pr/1444   (762 words)

  
 The Father of C# on the Past, Present and Future of Programming
Hejlsberg chatted with Microsoft Watch Editor Mary Jo Foley and eWEEK Senior Editor Darryl K. Taft at the recent Microsoft Tech Ed conference in Orlando, Fla., about the past, present and future of the C# programming language, among other programming-language-related topics.
In [Microsoft Vice President] Paul Flessner's keynote at Tech Ed, we heard about how Visual Studio, SQL Server and BizTalk Server are getting more and more tightly integrated.
My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impedance mismatch we have between programming languages, C# in particular, and the database world, like SQL—or, for that matter, the XML world, like XQuery and those languages that exist there.
www.eweek.com /article2/0,1895,1837443,00.asp   (1176 words)

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