No penalty for programming J#.

Contrary to rumors that I've heard, I can find no runtime penalty for code written in J# as opposed to other .NET languages and specifically C#. The one significant difference I've seen in IL generated by the vjc (J#) and csc (C#) command-line compilers is …

Data point:

Once upon a time, to study the performance of square versus jagged arrays in .NET I ported to C# the source code of one of the benchmarks mentioned in the article "The NINJA project. CACM 44(10): 102-109 (2001)."

I dug it out today and ran it against …

["]{.963004418-09072003}dW: What do you think about software quality?

Beck: I wish developers would consider the enormous consequences of their actions. When I got my driver's license at 16, I was both elated and terrified; I had newfound freedom and responsibilities to go with it. Now, compare that feeling to …

Another app that better with "ink" http://www.inkwalker.com/products.htm [via]{.345555121-06072003} [Sean 'Early' Campbell & Scott 'Adopter' Swigart's Radio Weblog]

[This app implies that electrical engineers (or hobbyists) can "think" in circuits the way that programmers think in code. Is that true? Does an EE go:]{.345555121-06072003} ["Yeah …

[Barry White has died of kidney failure.]{.583065116-06072003}

Does computational power add programmer performance? I said no in this post, Josh sarcastically agreed: "I agree whole-heartedly, if you can be a engineering-puritan and use a simple text editor and compiler, without complex build/make/ant scripts which do far more than just compile. It seems to me that …

[Microsoft is running a great promotion this summer -- free eBooks for Reader. Today's selections are Candy & Me by Hillary Liftin, Last To Die by James Grippando, and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Once retired, these titles will (almost certainly) not be available for free, so jump …

I moved to the Bay Area 14 years ago today, as Product Review Editor of Computer Language and AI Expert magazines. My duties included administering to the BBS's, which ran on a dedicated PC connected to a 1200 baud modem, and keeping track of the CompuServe forums. My CIS account …

My rant in reaction to Paul Caplan's response to Angelika Langer's OP:

> I would like to hear more about
> what is wrong with the languages of today

Of all the activities imaginable, computer programming is the one in which computers should have the greatest productivity impact. And yet compared to …

My colleague Joe Walnes pointed me to a fascinatingly simple tool developed by our colleague Chris Stevenson. TextDox (part of AgileDox) is a tool to automatically generate documentation from JUnit test cases. Sounds ridiculous, but then that's what Wardish ideas are like. [via ]{.135365000-25062003}[Martin Fowler's Bliki]