Ruby Accessors Considered Pernicious
One Ruby feature I fell in love with is the ability to define methods like foo and foo= which are used like simple variable...more.
Steven Degutis
Reinvent the Wheel
There's an old adage, don't reinvent the wheel. In other words, don't fix what isn't broken. But sometimes that's precisely what we need to...more.
Go Interfaces and DIP
The new language Go by Google brings a few orthogonal features to the table which work powerfully together. A heavy hitter in its arsenal...more.
The future of Lisp
I’ve been thinking about existing Lisps a lot lately and where we’re headed. In particular, I’ve been considering the possibility of writing another Lisp...more.