October 2007
9 posts
“The .NET platform now fully, officially, and equally supports functional,...”
– Microsoft to push functional programming into the mainstream with F#
“What’s wrong with this picture? We’re doing boolean algebra in our...”
– Jonathon Edwards, presentation at OOPSLA (video) on Subtext
Derivation and Evaluation of Concurrent Collectors →
Interesting stuff!
Is “Every time you inline a while block you make baby Jesus cry” harsh, or not harsh enough?
Becoming Adolf →
Journalist attempts to “take back” the toothbrush (“Hitler”) moustache
If anyone’s wondering what I’m up to, I now work for Amazon, which is a lot of fun, although it does mean that I can’t talk so much about what I actually do at work. Not that I ever updated these things anyway. But still.
“Lowering the quality of your work doesn’t eliminate work, it just shifts...”
– Kent Beck - Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change 