Howdy- Thanks to Stuart Maclean for the nudge. I removed the spam from the archive. Also, now only members can post to Wing Ding. Fingers Crossed, Jason...
Howdy- Slava Pestov, the jEdit guy, recently posted this entry. The HotSpot source code is a bad joke http://www.jroller.com/page/slava/20050102 I tried to...
... Preprocessors are *hip* baby. Java5 has one called apt. Yeah, sure, we call them "annotation processors" now, but hey, once a duck, always a duck. I also...
I don't know. Constructive criticism is always welcome. This was a rant and provides little useful information. Perhaps it serves as a warning but, still, I...
Hi Wilhelm Fitzpatrick- ... Generating bytecodes on the fly for reflectively invoked methods is utter coolness. But that may not be what's happening. Here's...
Hi Robert Kuhar- It certainly was a rant. It got my attention. So I guessed it worked. <grin> I cited Pestov because it both validated my own experience and...
... I'd be interested in your commentary on the classic Joel on Software "Don't Rewrite" article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html...
... I'd be willing to go out on limb and say that a big reason for that is that the Apache source tree is the subject of daily public inspection, and Sun's...
Hi Wilhelm Fitzpatrick- ... Ah. Joel Spolsky. I can't decide if I'm conflicted or ambivalent about his advice. <grin> I possess the standard geek snobbery...
... Wow. Now isn't that statement pretty much hitting the nail right on the head. I guess that it is an argument for Open Sourcing the whole damn thing. My...
Hi Wilhelm Fitzpatrick- ... Oops. Two more points. I forgot to challenge Joel's skepticism about bit rot. Source code does deteriate with age. For all sorts...
... I mostly agree with your points, but I would express one clarification. It is not that old code that rots. It is that platform shift out from underneath...
I missed this tidbit the first time around: Open Letter to Sun from Eric Raymond http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5961 "...epecially when IBM's intention to...
I stumbed on this article "The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software" at http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm ...
Hi Robert Kuhar- ... Yes. Cheers, Jason Aaron Osgood / Seattle WA __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective:...
That's a really good idea. I'm still slowly plodding my way through SICP. There's some cool stuff ust after where we left off about method dispatch that...
So it looks like we can make a run at this. The questions that remain are when and where. I can host about 8 - 10 at my home in West Seattle, or I can go...
Count me in for any java concurrency discussion too, west side preferred. I'm also willing to host at my house (Wallingford) if it suits people. Stuart...
Hi again all, Chris, I had a look at your page, nice article. One point I want to make, and I guess quite a fundamental one, is that your 'foo' function for...
Hi Robert Kuhar- ... Good eye. Our first attempt to study concurrency was premature. The 2nd edition of Lea's book hadn't shipped yet. There was no study...
... Yes it does... Look at the sample Lisp session halfway down the page right under the heading "Dynamic vs. Static" ... If the function that has access to...
Hi Stuart Maclean- ... Thanks! I'm also happy to host. But with global warming hitting early this year, my house will be a sauna. (I'm still saving nickels...
Howdy- The lock-free data structures stuff snuck up under my radar. I'm very intriqued by the idea. It'd be great if Lea had a 3rd edition that covered the...
Stuart, Thanks for having a look. Your observation about returning a function and some state variables wrapped up together is correct. As Willhelm points out,...
I think another point worth making is that neither Common Lisp or Scheme are purely functional languages. Both support both imperative *and* functional...
Any night but Tuesday works for me. My preference for time is 7-9 so that I can come straight from work but I can certainly live with 8-10 Paul On Thu, 3 Mar...
So is next Thursday evening pretty good for everyone? I propose... Thursday, March 10 4147 46th Ave SW, Seattle Do folks want to chip in for Dinnner? I could...
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