A new model of declarative programming languages has emerged for building infrastructure as code, promising more simplicity and safety than imperative languages. In the last dozen years or so, we’ve ...

You've heard about the next generation directory protocol called LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol), and you're wondering if it's possible to write programs that can interact with it. Maybe ...

Programs traditionally consist of a series of statements describing how to solve a problem. Declarative programs instead describe what problem to solve and what a solution would look like. The program ...

IN DECEMBER 1989 Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer scientist, set himself a Christmas project. Irked by shortcomings in other programming languages, he wanted to build his own. His principles were ...

Last month, Adina Howe took up a post at Iowa State University in Ames. Officially, she is an assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering. But she works not in the greenhouse, but ...