Archive for April, 2007

Programmers at the old folks home in 2065

“Back in my day… We typed in complete sentences… uphill both ways.”

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The DLR for .NET?

A post in ZDNet points out that Microsoft is releasing a dynamic language layer intended to run on the CLR. With the acquisition of John Lam and Jim Hugunin, they pretty much have their own little market cornerd… perhaps this is why Mr Lam wasn’t releasing any more drops of RubyCLR of late…
Very cool, [...]

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The Associative Model of Knowledge

Forget everything you know about storing data. Particularly the bits about retrieving it after you’ve stored it. I said forget it, and I know you didn’t. So, try again, forget it.
Rather than try to start by comparing this method to what you already know how to do, I’m going to just pretend [...]

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My Quest for a Language

That’s it. I’ve about had it. I’ve been working with C# now for a long time, and there are many things I like about it. But the structure for structure’s sake, lack of easy to implement multiple dispatch, and other such nonsense is starting to eat me for breakfast.
It’s time for a change, [...]

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