A Great Editor for Windows Batch Files

Check out http://www.scintilla.org/. The best editor to edit Windows batch files.

C# 4.0 Unveiled at PDC 2008

Topics that were covered included dynamic typing, optional and named parameters, improved COM interoperability, and covariance (overriding return types) and contravariance support. Eric White has a write-up here. The dynamic allows you to define a dynamic type, where member resolution is deferred till runtime. This allows for interoperability like languages like Python.

Anders Hejlsberg introduces the history of C#, from c# design group started in dec98 to build a new language for mged code. c# 2.0 - new features that didn't have time cos had to ship, c# 3.0 - first oppo to think of new things to do in langgeLINQ, functional progr features.

New features focus on more declarative styles of prog, dynamic prog lang resurgence, concurrent -> multi-core inflection pt. uber-trend -> classical taxonomies of prog lang are starting to break down. increasingly seeing langs borrow from each other. c# multi-paradigm prog lang, oop and all cornerstones of functional needs. imperative - hard to see forest from the trees - specify in excurciating detail.

Enjoying Tcl on Windows with ActiveTcl

ActiveTcl (21 MB download). Here's a short tutorial. Tcl is a compact, string-oriented language, easily integrated into special hardware. Tk is a platform independent GUI toolkit. Both were invented by John Ousterhout. Tcl is nice as it allows you to make short and unwordy programs. Java is verbose. Python is verbose. Tcl is just right. The set and puts commands are just a joy to use. Tk makes writing GUI code actually bearable and the brevity of its syntax precludes the need for IntelliSense.