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Neal Gafter's blog: Iterative control abstraction: user-defined loops
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On the purported benefits of effect systems
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| | A close examination on the supposed benefits of effect systems, framed as a conversation between two programming language designers.
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Ricky's technical blog: Why Java Needs Closures (It Already Has Them)
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| | Some bloggers and people I've talked with think of closures in Java as something unnecessary - e.g., "why must we copy C#?". As it happens,...
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Are Java 8 Lambdas Closures?
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#14: Static, Dynamic, Strong and Weak Type Systems: understand how your language treats data types
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| When choosing or learning a new programming language, type system should be your first question. How strict is that language when types don't really match? Will there be a conservative, slow and annoying compiler? Or maybe a fast feedback loop, often resulting in crashes at runtime? And also, is the language runtime trusting you know what you are doing, even if you don't? Or maybe it's babysitting you, making it hard to write fast, low-level code? Believe it or not, I just described static, dynamic, weak and strong typing.