Anatomy of a Feature. I like this. I admit, I'm not done reading it, but its exactly the sort of thinking that makes me "slow" even when I have a productive day. (Another reason I'm slow is that I'm pretty ruthless when it comes to automation, I think this is also just an "interesting read" along those veins: Porting Syck - A story of C, parser ( Read more... )

Okay, in I hate to respond to a troll, I responded to an article griping about functional programming. Just to prove I have standards I didn't even link or respond to Programming Sucks! Or At Least, It Ought To. Well, I thought about it, but I didn't.

Seems I wasn't the only one annoyed by these two gems(gems of wrongness that is...).

Programming ( Read more... )

Okay, this isn't quite a lazyweb request, and I should probably post this in the forum at Lambda-the-Ultimate and reveal my ignorance to all. You see, I love programming languages, and the theory behind them, especially semantics and type systems. Unfortunately, I know enough to be a great BS artist. As with most autodidacts, there are big gaping ( Read more... )

I like to pimp code generation, DSL's, and little languages as solutions to software engineering problems. A large number of people consider this "deep magic" and thus, not to be used as casually as, say, good Object Oriented design techniques, or relational modelling techniques. Well, I disagree, and since I saw this in the wild usage of code ( Read more... )