Compilers and programmers are good at very different things.  This is why they must come together in order to build software.  The programmer has the vision and the intention, the compiler keeps track of all of the small machine related details and optimizations.  Unfortunately, this is not an ideal world.  At any given time a ...

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.  You can't be sure of it's meaning, it's format or even how to ...

After my last blog post, due to some of the responses, I decided to spend some time with Smalltalk.  As a DotNET developer by trade, I wanted to see what kinds of options were available for use on the CLR.  Unfortunately, out of the five different DotNET Smalltalk flavors that have been created, not a single one is still under ...