A response to Shane’s message in the comments.

“Although programmers can make a lot of stupid mistakes with C, that is the entire point. Make the stupid mistakes now. Understand what went wrong. Understand how a computer functions when…

Jarno Virtanen: “So, one of the more exciting events of the year 2004 might prove to be the Python versus Parrot challenge, Pie-thon. In short, the performance of executing Python bytecode in CPython and in Parrot virtual machine will be measured at…

IBM developerWorks: “In the early days of Java technology, allocating objects got a pretty bad rap. There were lots of articles (including some by this author) advising developers to avoid creating temporary objects…

Artima: “Anders Hejlsberg, the lead C# architect, talks with Bruce Eckel and Bill Venners about C# and Java generics, C++ templates, contraints, and the weak-strong typing dial.”

IBM developerWorks: “Even though most Linux users have treated Linux as an operating system for their x86 white boxes, Linux runs equally well on PowerPC machines. David looks at Linux on the PowerPC and the appealing range of PPC machines produced by…

Through Dagur:
The Register: “Nokia tells us that Python, not Perl, is the preferred language for scripting on its smartphone platforms. Last week Lee Epting, the VP responsible for developer programs, told us that an internal build of…

No, I’m not an emacs user, but Charles Sebold explains why he became one.

Ben Maurer: “Recently, I have been working in MonoDevelop. There are lots of things to be done. Right now, our GUI basically looks like some developer came in and was rushing to get each dialog to work (which is true, and they did a very good job). But…

Oracle: “JSP 2.0 is an upgrade to JSP 1.2 with several new and interesting features that make the life of web application developers and designers easier. The objective of JSP 2.0 is to make JSP easier to use than ever, and more importantly to be used…

Shane posts about how he thinks you should get into programming. One thing he says is that you should start with a harder language (C, Java, C#, VB.NET).
Personally I started with Pascal, about 11 years ago. For those who don’t know, pascal is a procedural typed programming language like C…