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October 2008 - Posts

Much ado about nullity

Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 10:07 AM by RickM
I read an interesting article this morning by Reinier Zwitserloot on the topic of null subtypes in statically typed languages . The issue is that in Java and C# there are a number of different type modifiers for dealing with the concept of nullity. Because Read More...
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The Future of Programming Languages

Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 10:18 AM by RickM
Yesterday, my coworker Lou Franco pointed me to a fantastic talk by Anders Hejlsberg on the future of programming languages . In this talk Anders argues that the future of programming language development will be focused on three events: the explosion Read More...
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Tidying Up Old Blog Entries

Posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 1:41 PM by RickM
Looking back it seems like complete lunacy. For a period of time my method of choice to create blog entries was to write them out in Word 2003 and then export html. The almost unreadable text has been haunting me for a long time and I've finally gone Read More...
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Attachment(s): WordHtmlCleaner.zip

Avoiding the Dangers of Ambiguously Defined Data-Types

Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 11:10 AM by RickM
When you are handed a string, integer, or any value type, can you know what it really represents? Can you define the range of appropriate behaviors for that data? Can you tell if it's formatted correctly? The problem is, in all of these cases, you can't. Read More...
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