http://sadekdrobi.com Sadek Drobi Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:11:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Computation Abstraction: Going beyond programming language control syntax, or what we've missed from FP for so long in mainstream For a long time, and due to the lack of main FP concepts in most mainstream languages, we missed opportunities to abstraction and code expressiveness and conciseness. With today's democratization ... http://sadekdrobi.com/2009/12/07/my-computation-abstraction-slides-for-functional-exchange/ I’ll be presenting (in french) with Jean-Laurent de Morlhon at ValtechDays 2009 on November 17th a talk titled “Where are my Beans, Contracts and workflows? WOA and Rest: An enterprise mindset shift” Jean-Laurent did a brief introduction to the talk on his blog. “With ... http://sadekdrobi.com/2009/11/15/where-are-my-beans-contracts-and-workflows-woa-and-rest-an-enterprise-mindset-shift/ Most of my Erlang programming is side effect free. I think I probably write very unusual Erlang programs that look a lot like Haskell ones. Now and then, I do write side effecting code. For example, when I use the random number generation libraries that comes with Erlang, it has ... http://sadekdrobi.com/2009/11/06/683/ This was a not satisfying test of integrating a google wave in the blog. I'll make a summary of the wave later. I'll remove the wave for now from the blog because 1: It is not viewable by eveyone 2: It takes quite some time to load. Sorry for inconvinience... http://sadekdrobi.com/2009/10/18/test-integrating-public-wave/   If you look at Haskell, Erlang, Scala and F#, what do you see? If you look at Haskell, you see something which, within its context, within the little framework it sets up for its sandbox, it's very consistent, it's very beautiful. You look at Erlang, it ... http://sadekdrobi.com/2009/09/27/a-piece-of-wisdom-by-joe-armstrong/ Code included here is over simplified for clarity, I hosted a better implementation code on CodePlex. These modifications change strictly nothing for the client code and are only an implementation detail. I use a continuation rather than a delay, and I chose to design a custom continuation class rather ... http://sadekdrobi.com/2009/06/26/a-monad-in-c-for-simplifying-wpf-multi-threading-for-a-more-responsive-gui/ Jim Webber from http://www.infoq.com/interviews/robinson-webber-rest 00:37:08: We did put abstraction after abstraction onto our distributed system infrastructure and you know what: it hasn't worked out that well for us. Some of the largest and most sophisticated distributed systems on the planet haven't been all that large or sophisticated and then this kind ... http://sadekdrobi.com/2009/06/25/ian-robinson-and-jim-webber-on-web-based-integration/ Those that follow my twitter @sadache , me @infoQ or my blog have certainly already noticed that I am quite interested in Scala on languages' axis and in Domain Context Interaction DCI pattern on architecture axis. I always search new ways for delivering quality code which is modular and concise. ... http://sadekdrobi.com/2009/06/10/dci-in-real-world-domain-context-and-interaction-with-scala-in-a-real-world-project/ http://sadekdrobi.com/2009/05/28/i-am-speaking-in-erlang-factory-london-2009/ from Rich Hickey on Clojure's Features and Implementation Clojure multimethods are just another level of that same logic, in fact they are a realization of the last sentence I just said. They are dispatch based upon an arbitrary function of the arguments. You define a multimethod and you say ... http://sadekdrobi.com/2009/05/27/multimethod-in-clojure-should-i-call-it-first-class-pattern-matching-or-pattern-matching-in-disguise/