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“Exceptional Ruby” Now Available!
I am very, very excited to announce that the final version of my new eBook “Exceptional Ruby” is now available for immediate purchase. Originally born out of the realization that I had more material about Ruby failure handling than I … Continue reading
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Tagged eBook, errors, Exception handling, fail-fast, failures, programming, raise, rescue, ruby
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Daniel Spiewak on Monads
Anyone trying to understand monads will inevitably run into Haskell’s IO monad, and the results are almost always the same: bewilderment, confusion, anger, and ultimately Perl. via Monads Are Not Metaphors – Code Commit. A thoroughly enjoyable read, recommended.
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Tagged haskell, languages, monads, Perl, programming, ruby, scala
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Why Go Matters
This week Google announced a new systems programming language called “Go”. I know you’re pressed for time and overloaded with information, so let me restate that, with the important bits emphasized: Google announced a new SYSTEMS programming language. See that … Continue reading
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Tagged c++, concurrency, d, erlang, go, golang, google, languages, ooc, programming, systems
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