Lex Spoon

I've been hacking in M4 recently, and I ran across a great article about M4 by Michael Breen. I highly recommend it for anyone either u...

When geeking out about language design, it's tempting to focus on the things that require learning something new to even understand how ...

It's hard to beat lines of code as a complexity metric: the subjective complexity of a piece of code seems to correlate very well with i...

Type inference can make code much better. It can save you from writing down something that is completely obvious, and thus a total waste of ...

I would like to draw a connection between two lines of research: deprecation, and product lines. The punchline is that my personal view on d...

Johm Carmack has a great article up on his experience with bug-finder software such as Coverity and PC-Lint. One of his observations is thi...

Here's a solution to a common problem that has some interesting advantages. The problem is as follows. In a reactive system, such as a ...

Programming languages are practically always expressed in text, and thus they provide the programmer with a lot of flexibility in the exact ...

The Wall Street Journal has an article up on licensing . They make a claim that looks correct to me: "Occupations prefer to be license...

Engineers of all walks insert extra debugging probes into what they're building. The exterior surface of the artifact is often silent ab...