Jul 10, 2009
My programming languages history
I find it fascinating to read personal programming histories and seek them out whenever possible (still waiting for one from Grant Rettke, Ola Bini, Rich Hickey, Dan Weinreb, and D.R. MacIver). In case anyone is interested, my own ...
May 29, 2009 some comments
this is another entry in a series on programmer enrichment
Most programmers looking to improve their craft are enthusiastic about learning new programming languages. I am a huge proponent of polyglot programming practices and as a result I attack literature, code samples, ...
May 15, 2009 some comments
After reading David MacIver's recent post on the term functional I thought it would be interesting to compile a list of computing terms and ideas that are often abused:
Functional
DSL
Combinator
Closure
Monad (on the rise)
Lisp has no syntax
Immutability (more so in practice)
"... Considered Harmful"
Hacker
Enterprise
The Cloud
AJAX
REST
MVC ...
Mar 26, 2009 some comments
This post was featured on the Scala website. It is advised to jump there first and then sneak back here ... eventually.
A couple weeks back I came across a post on creating the simplest possible BASIC DSL written in Scala by ...
Mar 11, 2009 some comments
Like many programmers, I'm always on the lookout for the perfect programming book. Over the years I have tried to enumerate a few key examples, however after reading them all I am still left wanting. However, I recently came across ...
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