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Daily Archives: December 10th, 2007

Virtuous Language Design

Eric.weblog() reminded me of an excellent interview with Anders Hejlsberg on generics in C#, Java, and C++. Anders is the kind of person you want in charge of designing a language. In the interview he demonstrates a deep knowledge of the how competing languages implement generics, and the implications of those design decisions. […]

jQuery

I played around with jQuery a little over the weekend. I’m fairly impressed. The obvious comparison is with Prototype, but I can’t really make that comparison because almost all the Prototype work I’ve done has been automatically generated by Rails. Certainly the code I hand-wrote over the weekend seems more concise and […]