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by Bruce Eckel, September 25, 2005,  20 comments
It's not uncommon to run across technical papers published in postscript. It's not clear to me why people still do this, but until yesterday I've never had the patience to figure out how to read them.
by Christopher Diggins, September 24, 2005,  15 comments
Every once in a while I come up with a good idea for Heron, and then inevitably Vesa Karvonen tells me that it existed in ML since the dawn of time. Maybe this time will be different?
by Christopher Diggins, September 23, 2005,  3 comments
The trend towards microparsing in XML specifications, is killing the spirt of XML.
by Christopher Diggins, September 23, 2005,  15 comments
Various musings about how to deal with units of measure in the Heron graphics library.
by John D. Mitchell, September 21, 2005,  67 comments
Why does software suck? Is it just because most of anything sucks or is there something particular about software that enhances the suckage factor?
by Michael Feathers, September 20, 2005,  25 comments
Or do they?
by Christopher Diggins, September 20, 2005,  Submit comment
File this under 'tooting my own horn'.
by Dale Asberry, September 19, 2005,  17 comments
This is a one-sided analysis of the downsides of using stored procedures. PLEASE do not take this to mean that I'm in any way against their *judicious* use.
by Christopher Diggins, September 18, 2005,  95 comments
In Python variables are never explicitly typed. I consider this a Very Bad Thing.
by Bruce Eckel, September 12, 2005,  14 comments
Threading has sucked down a lot of my life in the past few years. Aside from work on earlier versions of Thinking in Java, I clocked 8 months on the threading chapter in "Thinking in C++, Volume 2." I've already spent several months on the "Concurrency" Chapter in "Thinking in Java 4th edition." And now I'm back working on it again.
by Christopher Diggins, September 12, 2005,  6 comments
Currently Heron is not allowing implicit casting to function arguments. I am trying to decide whether this is a good thing.
by Christopher Diggins, September 11, 2005,  10 comments
For loop constructs in programming languages are usually syntactic sugar, but what should they map to?
by Christopher Diggins, September 10, 2005,  15 comments
When it comes down to it, C++ does only one thing wrong, it tries to be everyone's language.
by Christopher Diggins, September 9, 2005,  Submit comment
A new Heron release is now available.
by Michael Feathers, September 9, 2005,  50 comments
Don't let slow tests bog you down.
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