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Room 101: An Image Problem
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A place to be (re)educated in Newspeak. Tuesday, October 06, 2009. Imagine a library, say in Java, that provided a universal facility for saving the exact runtime state and configuration of any application. It would essentially capture the heap, all threads and their stacks, and save them to a file. The facility would be transparent to the programmer - you wouldn’t need to change your program in any way, beyond calling the library function. Pretty neat. The idea hasn’t caught on. Why? On the image mechan...
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Milan Zimmermann's Blog: October 2011
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Tuesday, October 04, 2011. Gilad Bracha / Lars Bak / Google - Dart: Progress the web. Gilad Bracha / Lars Bak / Google - Dart: Progress the Web. Three weeks ago or so, I came back from a Toronto Smalltalk Users Group meeting, to a nice surprise: a bit of a late night (here in TO) flurry of articles about Dart - or Dash(? A new programming language from Google". I think Dart will be more than a "language" - rather a vm/environment that will run inside the browser (and also outside surely). Http:/ www....
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Smalltalk Reflections: December 2014
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Monday, 29 December 2014. Smalltalk Reflections #005: Types. Smalltalk is dynamically typed while most mainstream object oriented languages are statically typed. In this episode, David and Craig define the terms statically typed, dynamically typed and strongly typed and talk about the differences. They cover the advantages and disadvantages of dynamic typing. Https:/ s3.amazonaws.com/smalltalkreflections/SmalltalkReflections 005.mp3. You can leave comments on our blog at. Sunday, 21 December 2014. Cincom...
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Making programming pay: November 2008
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Sunday, November 30, 2008. Objects 101 - Uniformity. Some interesting comments to my last post have prompted my to expand more on what I believe is good OO. As an example of good OO let me reproduce the Smalltalk code example from my response to a comment by Paul Homer to my last post:. Ok lets try and express this in a more familiar OO language, Java:. What is bad about this? Like Paul Homer pointed out the instructions (if,. New Integer(3) .isLessThan(new Integer(4) .isTrue(new Block {. Why Bad OO Sucks.
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Making programming pay: Building trust and unlocking the IT/ Business relationship - Show me the Working Software!
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Saturday, July 02, 2011. Building trust and unlocking the IT/ Business relationship - Show me the Working Software! Hoping to keep this one short. I've been reading a lot of Gerald Weinberg recently, and I must say that he as an exceptional way of cutting to the core. Computer programming as always been opaque. The people who pay for it, must trust to luck and throw their money into what must seem like a deep dark pit and hope that eventually they may get something back in return. Yes, but guess what?
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Where are the fast dynamic languages? | Martin C. Martin
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Martin C. Martin. Inspiring Lunatics, Tainting Meats. What I’ve Learned From Programming In Lisp. Should you pursue your PhD? Where are the fast dynamic languages? April 3, 2008. But I also knew, and forgot, Hoare’s dictum that premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming. 8212; Donald Knuth. Something bizarre happened on the Groovy-dev mailing list the other day. Alex Tkachman made what I thought was a simple suggestion:. I suggested the checks could work like assertions:. Even though i...
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To Swift and back again | Swift Opinions
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Thoughts on Swift development. To Swift and back again. September 29, 2014. This article could have been about how we converted our current project. To Swift, then eventually had to convert 15k lines of Swift. To Objective-C again. But it’s not going tell that story. – The main reasons are outlined in this article. No, this article is going to talk the experience of taking the project to Swift and then back to Objective-C – what was better in Swift and what improved going back to Objective-C. The most ho...
