As I’ve mentioned before, a pure functional subset is forming in the D Programming Language. According to the creators of D, transitive const is a key feature to make this work.
The future of programming will be multicore, multithreaded. Languages that make it easy to program them will supplant languages that don’t. Transitive const is key [...]
Jay Fields has a post up today where he makes a distinction between Developers and Hackers.
Time after time I see requirements gathered and presented in a way that is totally disconnected from the business problem that’s being addressed. There are two ways to handle the situation.
Write the best code you can.
Talk to the business.
Hackers generally [...]
I’m back from my summer vacation. I try to take a long holiday every year and stay away from computers, be with my family, visit interesting places and, of course, read books. Summer is the time of year when I take my reading habits away from the toilet out to the hammock. Time is still [...]
As you may or may not have discovered I have been on a long vacation, and intentionally stayed far away from any computer. Unfortunately my blog seems to have broken while I have been gone, particularely the single post pages.
Somehow the ModRewrite rules got screwed up, no idea how. Anyway, it has been taken care [...]
