The Origins of Scala
When Java first shipped, Bill Joy and James Gosling and the other members of the Java team thought that Java should have generics, only they didn't have the time to do a good job designing it in. So because there would be no generics in Java, at least initially, they felt that arrays had to be covariant.
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The Goals of Scala's Design
Martin Odersky talks with Frank Sommers and Bill Venners about the compromises and most important goals in Scala's design, its object-oriented innovations, and what's in it for you.
Duels of the Planeswalkers: The Magic Engine : Daily MTG : Magic: The Gathering
For instance, the UI finds that a certain card is in the graveyard. It is essential that the UI sub-system does not care why the card is there, or how it got there. It is entirely a dumb client.
Use your singletons wisely: ten years later - The Code Whisperer
While injecting the dependency appeared to make the classes more tightly coupled, it simply revealed the coupling that already existed. A was already tightly coupled to B and B to C. When we tried to inject the dependency, we made that coupling mo...
cortesi - The impact of language choice on github projects
Are there major differences between projects in different languages? Is it possible to quantify these differences? I decided to try to gather some hard numbers.
Why UML Fails to Add Value to the Design and Development Process « Learning Lisp
UML is applying an abstraction at the wrong end of the problem. It is primarily used to sketch object models for inferior languages.
InfoQ: How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters
A well-written API can be a great asset to the organization that wrote it and to all that use it. Given the importance of good API design, surprisingly little has been written on the subject. In this talk (recorded at Javapolis), Java library desi...
Otaku, Cedric's weblog: Why Java doesn't need operator overloading (and very few languages do, really)
The number of operators that you can overload is very small and each of them is attached to very specific semantics that makes little sense outside the realm of scalars and of a few other specialized mathematical concepts (e.g. matrices).
The Plight of Pinocchio: JavaScript's quest to become a real language - opensoul.org
Great presentation about writing Javascript like you write everything else: Well-structured and tested.
JavaScript is no longer a toy language. Many of our applications can’t function without it. If we are going to use JavaScript to do real thi...
Meme Agora: Ruby Matters: Frameworks, DSLs, and Dietzler's Rule
The reasoning goes that if we create languages that keep people out trouble by restricting what damage they can do, we can produce software without having to pay those annoying software craftsman ridiculous amounts of money
Modelling the World
The goal of modelling is to produce something substantially simpler than the world. This is achieved not through endlessly inventing new types and relationships -- in fact, it's just the opposite. It's by eliminating entities and restricting types...