According to Ars, Haskell and Dylan dominate ICFP programming competition

Hurrah for Dylan…

Just read an interesting post from Gilad Bracha about adding more support to the JVM for dynamically typed languages.

I’ve been wondering for ages why the guys in the Dylan community haven’t attempted to target the JVM instead of the current approach which involves generating and then compiling C code.

Possibly invokedynamic may help… although it depends a bit on whether it supports generic method dispatch based on the type of any and all arguments. I don’t know enough about the guts of the Dylan implementation to be sure that this will help, but I hope so…

Noel Llopis wrote a nice article in Games From Within defending the use of assertions as a programming technique.

I’m right there with him on this one - the idea that asserts are incompatible with unit testing or other good programming practises is just daft.

Things have been a bit quiet at Chaos towers recently.

This is mostly due to the fact that I’ve been back at Sports Interactive doing some contracting - basically helping them to hammer out a few bugs for the next version of Football Manager.

I’ll be there for a few more weeks, and then off on another exciting adventure… more details to follow shortly.

I’ve updated my Autolink Drupal module to version 1.3.

The only change with this version is that it now works properly with Drupal 4.6. See the Autolink project page for more details.