While I talked about being blown away by certain talks at Lang.NET, from a pragmatic standpoint I very much enjoyed the practical talks, such as those given by Harry Pierson and, especially, \<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mmaly/default.aspx"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Martin Maly. Martin …

Ok, after despairing of getting the comment issue in dasBlog worked out, I have switched over to Disqus. Let me know if this causes headaches...

Like Charles Petzold, my first reaction to Jeff Atwood's question "What Can You Build in 600 Lines of Code?" was along the lines of "5 articles!"

But actually, I think 600 lines is just about the right benchmark size for a language, because it's:

• Small enough to develop in a …

At least two problems:

• Some-to-all (?) people don't see the CAPTCHA image, and
• The system is crashing the application pool every several minutes

I've disabled the comments to see if the system instability is definitely associated with them...

Correcting myself re. concurrency at Lang.NET, there was one "sit up and take notice" discussion. Erik Meijer briefly discussed that he and his team have implemented (or at least prototyped) MapReduce for LINQ. "We call it MapReduce for Datacenters or somesuch..."

I asked him to clarify if this a …

Although concurrency was laid out by Jason Zander as one of the overarching themes of language work moving forward, it was not at all emphasized as a primary concern in any of the talks I saw. There was some talk about language features that a "sufficiently smart compiler" could handle …

Jason Bock and Ted Neward did a good job summarizing specific talks, so I won't duplicate that effort. Overall, I loved the conference, it was revitalizing for me. The speakers varied greatly in their presentation skills, but I actually liked the "texture" that gave the conference; you definitely didn't have …

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Yesterday I went swimming on a coral reef in 100' visibility with whales singing so loud that I almost expected to see them underwater. For the next 3 days, I'll be in Seattle, where I assume they have this thing I hear about called "heating."

Actually, after canceling the trip …

Definitely looks worth checking out:

I used to live several miles from Harvard Square, which was (a) a destination in and of itself and (b) the last stop on the Red Line (back in the day). I used to live about 5 minutes from the Belmont Center route, which ran occasionally, and about 15 minutes …