Michael Feathers, author of the excellent book Working Effectively with Legacy Code, recently tweeted about a paper written by Peter Van Roy entitled Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know.   I thoroughly enjoyed the paper, despite being initially put off by its title.  It’s written in very accessible ...

Almost too much to keep up with this week.  Most notably, Roger Castillo gave a fantastic talk on F#’s Language Oriented Programming features.  Also interesting, the Microsoft Research F7 project, Symbolic Differentiation, and tail call optimized corecursion.   Roger Castillo’s Language Oriented Programming in F# Roger will ...