Copyrighting a Programming Language (syntax and other Intellectual Property)

Over at the forums we’ve been getting pretty excited over the prospect of an openTuring project, but the current discussions focus more on the legal aspects rather than technical details. So this brings up the question:

Can one copyright (or gain other intellectual property rights) to a programming language?

This case study will use Holtsoft’s Turing for [...]

CompSci does Functional Programming

CompSci.ca’s guru wtd has been contributing a plethora of O’Caml and Haskell tutorials, and now those resources have been collected into their own Functional Programming forum.
In short, Functional Programming is a paradigm, or style, that focuses on mathematical functions. It is a fundamentally different way of thinking about programming, and offers a refreshing change from [...]

Regular Expression Google Code Search

Today Google Labs have introduced Code Search. It’s a nifty tool for searching publicly available source code – that is, what Google gets to, including .tar and .zip archives. It works with actual source-code files, but not code snippets that are often embedded into posts.
The best part is the support for Regular Expression searches. Our [...]