Monthly Archives: February 2007

Implementation Exposure Through Inheritance

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 17, 2007

There’s a bit of ugliness with object-oriented development which I keep encountering, so I’m wondering if any of the locals out there have a better solution. Specifically, my problem is that the inheritance relationship seems to be conflating two purposes in at least Java and CSharp.

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Usage

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 11, 2007

A hint for those of you posting to this blog: if you sign in, only your first comment will ever be moderated. Once you’ve got the green light for your first post, the blog takes that as proof you’re not a spambot and allows you to post freely. So, if you don’t like your comments [...]

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Thoughts on Parallelism

By Brian Hurt | Published: February 8, 2007

The more I think about it, the more I think the future is going to be a combination of STM and message passing. Both have their advantages and disadvantages.

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Two Whitepapers Every Developer Should Read

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 8, 2007

Just forwarding these around work, so I thought I’d share with the blog, too. Why Functional Programming Matters — It is fundamentally different and fundamentally better than imperative programming. Note that “imperative programming” includes “object-oriented” languages like Java. This article argues why with illustration. http://www.math.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.pdf Skip Lists — This is my go-to priority queue implementation [...]

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Java and Lazy Lists: I Stand Corrected (Sort Of)

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 6, 2007

Jakarta Commons-Collections actually does provide a lazy list kind of beast. They just didn’t realize they did it. There is a class called ObjectGraphIterator, which could be use to simulate iterating over a lazy list (were one to be kinda tricky about it). Combined with the TransformIterator, we can accomplish the get-time retrieval manging that [...]

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