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Creating DSLs in Java, Part 1: What is a domain-specific language?

If you’ve ever written a makefile or designed a Web page with CSS, you’ve already encountered a DSL, or domain-specific language. DSLs are small, expressive programming languages custom designed for ...

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...
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Will the future be written entirely in JavaScript?

No popular language may be as maligned as JavaScript. But its migration to the server side opens the possibility it may become all-pervasive In 1995, when Netscape was looking for a new brand for its ...