Bruce has an interesting discussion entitled "Generics Aren't". It's primarily about the new support for generics in Java, but it has a lot of "generic generic" material as well. via [Eric Gunnerson's C# Compendium]
The argument applies to C# generics, but dismisses type-safe data structures as only of concern to …
more ...Beautiful post by James Robertson on the Whidbey slip: short release cycles improve quality. This has absolutely become the consensus over the past half-decade.
However, the .NET infrastructure significantly affects this particular release: the CLR itself, the compilers, and the major applications (SQL Server, Visual Studio) boot-strapped with those require …
more ...Scoble has a good post on the Whidbey Slip [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]
In it, he says "The idea that Whidbey is being slipped just because it needs to tie up with Yukon isn't wholly correct...." and I have to admit to blogging just that conclusion without having actually, you …
more ...more ...What is the next step in the evolutionary tree of programming languages...the new languages I have heard of seemed to fall in the existing classifications: it integrates such feature from language A, such other from language B and so on...At the same time, object oriented languages can be …
Does Tufte do any online training or have a CD? Asked "bro" in my comments (or maybe it was my brother Steve...)
I don't think so and having attended a seminar of his, I can guess why. Tufte treasures "density of information" in representation. One thing he passes around at …
more ...Mike Schinkel wants Microsoft to create a stepping-stone language for .NET -- VBScript.NET.
A couple of thoughts:
There needs to be a language for .NET that presents the user a simplified object and typing model. Mike lays out the case very nicely.
Microsoft doesn't have to be the one to …
more ...I am reminded of the South Park where Cartman tries to kill Stan with a wiffle bat.
Blogged on a Tablet PC
more ...My latest SD Times column contains my impressions of a standards meeting (based on my participation in the ECMA C# and C++/CLI meetings last month).
more ...Standard Issue
more ...Just launched: a website promising live virtual coverage of this weekend's Grand Challenge race, in which robotic vehicles will race accross the California desert. via [Boing Boing Blog]
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p dir=ltr> My guess is that this will be the biggest letdown since the last episode of Seinfeld, but on the …
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