Lex Spoon

In any system of components, the more contexts you want a component to work in, the lower you want its dependencies to be. Using a Java jar...

David Pollak just announced that he is writing a Scala book : I am very excited to announce that I am writing Beginning Scala and it will be...

A design rule I've come to believe in due to painful experience is that it's best to run the code for different purposes independent...

The web is based on de facto specs, requiring a lot of investigation to find out what exactly the platform does. One question about the de ...

There's a famous Note on Distributed Computing , by Jim Waldo, et al, arguing that the procedure calls of a language should not be made ...

The Scala book is now out. Bill wrote a great article about the process: It's been a long two years, filled with much toil and struggl...

Check out the little Christmas tree my mother sent us.  You really can send anything through the mail these days.  It's a great gift, to...