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Code Camp 12: Boston – Why F#?

Posted Friday, October 16, 2009 11:18 AM by RickM
A couple of months ago I was talking to Lou Franco , the head of our Software Engineering department and fellow functional programming enthusiast, about the possibility of using F# for projects in the future.  Being business minded, he replied that Read More...
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Why OO may not suck, or, Take a ride on the Falsus Omnibus

Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:00 AM by RickM
This post is in response to Joe Armstrong’s Why OO Sucks .  While I feel that Joe’s post reads more like an sermon than a stream of rational thought, it does bring up a number of misconceptions I feel many people in the functional programming world Read More...
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F# and Haskell, Estranged Cousins

Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009 3:24 PM by RickM
In this post I compare and contrast Haskell and F#. It may come as no surprise that with so much shared history they share so much in common. However, it’s interesting to consider how the perspectives of the languages’ developers play a large role in Read More...
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Discoveries This Week 01/09/2008

Posted Friday, January 09, 2009 11:37 AM by RickM
It’s been a very exciting week. I actually had more things to post than time would allow me to write about. I’ll have to save them for next time. Blog: Daniel Spiewak’s What is Hindley-Milner? (and why is it cool?) Hindley-Milner is the algorithm all Read More...
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Processes in .NET Part 3 – Interfacing With Simple Console Programs by Example, Tesseract OCR

Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 6:00 AM by RickM
Did you know that .NET provides an easy way to interact and control console programs?  In this article I will walk you through this process by creating a wrapper class for Google’s Tesseract OCR application.  At the end of this post, I will Read More...
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How will you parallelize your existing codebase? Try R.A.S.P.

Posted Tuesday, December 23, 2008 4:23 PM by RickM
There has been much talk of how we will be writing all of our new code with parallelization in mind.  However, what of our existing code?  It’s unlikely that everyone will just suddenly dump decades of existing code and write everything from Read More...
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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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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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Immutable Data Structures in OO Languages.

Posted Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:53 PM by RickM
One of the big reasons for the recent push towards functional programming languages is concurrent programming. Everyone is worried about how the switch from more megahertz to more cores is going to impact how they program. I was reading an article entitled Read More...
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