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Implicit Interfaces Posted by Len at 7 Jan 2006 09:57 AM
ImplicitInterfaceImplementation - from Martin Fowler is an interesting piece where Martin suggests that it would be useful to be able to provide alternative implementations of a class's implicit interface. That is, given a class that does not inherit from an...

If you enjoyed the Petzold thing earlier... Posted by Len at 25 Oct 2005 09:50 PM
This may also be your kinda thing. Ellen Ullman's 1998 two part series "The Dumbing-Down of Programming" from Salon archives. Rebelling against Microsoft, "My Computer" and easy-to-use Wizards, an engineer rediscovers the joys of difficult computing. Returning to the Source....

Sacrificing precision for ease of use? Posted by Len at 17 Sep 2005 11:15 AM
I'm probably jumping the gun a little here as I can't find Herb Sutter's slides that Matt Pietrek is referring to, but... Once again I find myself asking why is it actually useful to repurpose the auto keyword in C++......

C# v3 Extension methods, syntactic sugar for the lack of free functions? Posted by Len at 16 Sep 2005 03:12 PM
There's a lot of noise coming out of the Microsoft PDC right now. Something that interested me was the future direction of C#; you can grab the spec from here. It seems they're adding "extension methods" which, to me, appear...

Some thoughts on complexity Posted by Len at 29 Feb 2004 01:57 PM
I find that these days I prefer my complexity to be obvious. Things with hidden complexity aren't any less complex, they're just less obvious. If you make all of your complexity obvious then you know which pieces of code are complex and you can focus your attempts at simplification on the right places...

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