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.
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.
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Otaku, Cedric's weblog: Why Java doesn't need operator overloading (and very few languages do, really)
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The JavaScript Object Model: Prototypes and properties
Speaker today is Henning Koch, Head of Development at makandra.
This talk will be in German with English slides.
Introduction
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Duels of the Planeswalkers: The Magic Engine : Daily MTG : Magic: The Gathering
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cortesi - The impact of language choice on github projects
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The Ruby Object Model
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InfoQ: How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters
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A collection of useful design resources for developers
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Tutorials
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- [Refactori...
CSS: Matching against attributes and their values (or parts of them)
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a[title] { /* any <a> that has a "title" */ }
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