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Tag Archives: Haskell
How Ocaml Can Be Improved
A series of suggestions about how the OCaml programming language (esp. its standard library) can be improved.
7 Actually Useful Things You Didn’t Know Static Typing Could Do: An Introduction for the Dynamic Language Enthusiast
One of the things that has consistently been difficult in the whole dynamic typing/static typing conversation is that people don't seem to understand what a real static typing language can do. The dynamic typing vs. static typing conversation seems to be Java's type system vs. Ruby's type system, which simply isn't fair. So, in the spirit of advancing discourse and helping people understand why I enjoy Ocaml so much, let me present "7 Actually Useful Things You Didn't Know Static Typing Could Do".
Posted in Classic, OCaml, Programming Language Punditry, Ruby/JRuby Also tagged Functional Languages: Ocaml 72 Comments
Thoughts on Parallelism
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.
Posted in Classic, To Be Categorized Also tagged Functional Languages: Ocaml, Programming and Software Development 23 Comments
Java’s Failure to be Lazy
Laziness is cool, and Java all but completely fails to be lazy, which is a shame considering how useful the trick is.
Functional (Meta)?Programming Stunts for Ruby and Groovy (and a Little Perl)