Because .NET Streams have state, they are difficult to use in multithreaded environments. In this post I discuss ways to manage or work around problems arising from the statefulness of .NET Streams. I explain how this is possible both through traditional inheritance and also through some indulgence in hacking of object protection levels by ...

My last blog post got a lot of reddit attention this weekend.  I want to thank all of the posters with constructive comments.  Open discussion like this is what makes the Internet great. I would also like to take a moment to discuss some of the ideas brought forth by the comments I’ve received both on my blog and on reddit. ...

Ian Piumarta and some very smart folks over at the Viewpoints Research Institute have been working on a meta programming language named IS which is specifically designed for implementing other languages. The project actually has several names (IS, idst, cola, jolt, &c), as far as I can tell the current development version is called cola. The ...