Around 750 people commented on the online preview of the Real World Haskell book. As described by one of its co-authors, John Goerzen, in a recent interview to O’Reilly, the book introduces Haskell with real code, real examples and tips to exploit in a business environment. In his interview, Goerzen explains why, in his opinion, this language is worth learning; he provides insights into its specificities and addresses some issues that may be a source of reluctance.
January 25, 2009
January 22, 2009
My tinny presentation in VTDays 2008
For those that didn’t happen to be there, here is a link to my tinny presentation I did in VTDays last year. There is a huge room for improvement, yet funny :)
January 19, 2009
Quizz:: SharpLight |> What does this do?
div <<
a "sadekdrobi.com"
<< img "http://is.gd/gqVX"
++ "my lil’ friend"
January 10, 2009
Programming Languages: 2008 Review and Prospects for 2009
In the beginning of last year, Ehud Lamm launched on Lamba the Ultimate a thread about programming languages predictions for 2008. Several subjects popped up: concurrency, functional programming, future of Java, Ruby, C++, and many others… What really happened in 2008 and what are the prospects for 2009? Bloggers have addressed these questions on demand of James Iry, echoing at last year thread.
January 5, 2009
You’ve got 100 pages to convince me of your shiny language!
In the rapidly spanning world of programming languages, I find myself buying and reading a lot of books about new and old programming languages. There are a few interesting concepts in each language, and if you think about employing more than one language in your projects then you better know about the existence of these concepts (see Paradigm based Polyglot Programming).
One thing that annoys me though about most programming language books is how raw they often are.
January 4, 2009
Who told Java Checked Exceptions were a Bad Idea?
One of the few things that lack seriously, IMO, in C# is the power of Java checked exceptions. In Java world? things happen weirdly. Maybe it is a result of crowd intelligence and a bad side effect of open source. Often, people in J2EE world tend to believe the opposite. Anyway you see the effect in most preferred frameworks (such as today’s popular ORMs and Containers) of wrapping checked Java exceptions and rethrowing them as runtime ones.
