A Wrinkle in (Deconstructed) Time

Or, “Hey, you blogged again! It’s about time!” In “Are We There Yet? A Deconstruction of Object Oriented Time,”[slides] [interview] Clojure creator Rich Hickey looks beyond concurrency support in popular programming languages to see what’s on the horizon. He asserts that wrapping our objects in locks – the popular solution – is an attempt to [...]

Posted Under: Programming,Programming Languages,Software Development
This post was written by Jake on October 19, 2009 Comments (2)

Languages and Axioms

I learned Common Lisp last summer. I had been using some combination of Python, C++, C, and Java for about 8 years, and I wanted to break out of my popular language box. I was more or less attracted to the “data as code” idea, but really it had a bunch of selling points that [...]

Posted Under: Misc,Programming Languages
This post was written by Jake on March 10, 2009 Comments (1)