Monday, April 6, 2009

Why I don't like Scala

›
Scala is a hybrid functional/imperative object/actor language for the Java Virtual Machine which has recently gained notoriety by Twitter se...
238 comments:
Sunday, April 5, 2009

Twitter: a followup

›
My last post about Twitter unsurprisingly drew the responses of the super duper microblogging interconnected developers at Twitter. I'm...
29 comments:
Friday, April 3, 2009

Twitter: blaming Ruby for their mistakes?

›
"It's a poor workman who blames his tools..." With the Internet abuzz about Google being in talks with Twitter , it seems that...
150 comments:
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Is Reia an object oriented language Joe Armstrong could actually like?

›
Short answer: no! Long answer: he might hate it less than the others. Erlang creator Joe Armstrong is no fan of OOP . He says it sucks! O...
84 comments:
Monday, March 9, 2009

I'm speaking at Erlang Factory conference in April

›
Anyone who visits my blog (as opposed to just reading it via the RSS feed) has probably noticed the badge in my sidebar, but I figured that ...
32 comments:
Sunday, March 8, 2009

Reia: no longer indentation-sensitive

›
Tonight I merged the "indentless" branch of Reia into master. This means that Reia is no longer indentation sensitive. Ironical...
69 comments:
Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Indentation sensitivity: a post-mortem?

›
I've been designing my language Reia with an indentation-sensitive syntax like Python... until now. Things went fairly smoothly at firs...
191 comments: