K. Scott Allen has a great post showing an “abuse” of the lambda syntax in C#.
But I’m wondering, can any use of programming language really be called abuse? The language designers and creators put the ability to create the hack described above into the language. If they didn’t want you to do things like that, [...]
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Here is a great rant about “modern” programming languages.
And so for 20 years now these folks —
*the* shining lights, in many ways, of “practical” programming
language, operating systems, and general systems research — have
continued to fail to “get” the fundamental practical needs of everyday
programmers working in The Real World. “Go” is just another language
written first [...]
JavaScript: A tool too sharp?
Script# (Script Sharp) – writing javascript in C#
Both Jimmy and roy have great posts discussing JavaScript. Roy is looking at it as a C# developer lured by the many, many articles about how jQuery is the only thing that makes JavaScript worth using and using Script# to abstract away some of [...]
I’ve always wanted to use Python more but it’s difficult because the .NET Framework is such a walled garden in terms of interoperability with other programming languages. Mostly I use it to write little one off scripts when I want to move a bunch of files around or parse some text. I was really excited [...]
In the last post, the code was pretty clean. Our resident Rhino.Mocks guru at work, Sean, left a comment saying that the new code was much better than the Do-Func stuff I had before. Sean was the one that pointed me to the Repeat.Times methods in Rhino.Mocks. I thought I'd post the old code that [...]
Last week the MIX online team announced that they are releasing the ASP.NET MVC code that powers their MIX Online blog as open source at CodePlex. This is a great thing.
The code base, while touted as a "a real-world sample written using ASP.NET MVC.", is not without some problems. The commentary on Twitter soon after [...]
