I’ve taken quite a few paradigm shifting journeys in my life. Some have been quick insights, instant moments of clarity. Others have been slow processes, spanning over several years. One such slow journey for me has been how I look upon virtual methods of object oriented languages.
Java methods are virtual by default. Unless explicitly marked [...]
Sorry for the off-topic.
I saw Al Gore on Swedish television last week. He had received the Gothenburg Sustainable Development Award and was holding a speech at the ceremony. As usual Al Gore was able to capture his audience with a mix of scaring facts and a call for action. This time he conveyed the new [...]
In a Reddit discussion following my last post on object lifetime management in D, bonzinip wondered why the D closures aren’t used with the open-closure-close idiom that is common, for instance, in Ruby.
bonzinip: languages with closures (Ruby, Smalltalk) use them to ensure that the file is closed when you get out of scope, and that [...]
The D Programming Language is a modern version of C. It adds productivity features to the performance power of C, features like object oriented programming and garbage collection.
It may seem strange that a language with focus on performance utilizes automatic memory management. A GC equals overhead, right? Well, actually that is a common misconception. These [...]
