Archive for March, 2007

The Myth that “Features” must be used…

I’ve been doing a lot of research reading and experimentaion lately in the field of compiler writing and language theory, and I keep running across a lot of miscellaneous blog entries or responding comments that make assertions somewhere on the order of “But since we’re using c# we should be using properties for everything [...]

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HEY WOULD-BE COMPILER WRITERS!

I’m sorry for the capital title, but this is big. It’s old news technically, but for me, it’s huge. I found an article that actually shows from step one to end how to write your own scripting language. I was going to write one of these articles myself, but now that I’ve [...]

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By the way…

I just wanted to make it known that my home grown query language was called OPQL (object persistence query language) BEFORE JPQL (java persistence Query Language) was known. So there. I claim the naming originality, despite the apparent similarity to the nomenclature of a feature of java’s new iteration. Phew, I feel better now.

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