Lex Spoon

It saddens me to read the comments about Scala Days on scala-lang.org. The only two comments are from people who won't be coming becaus...

Once in a while, I encounter a broad-based claim that it's fundamentally unsound to doubt the superiority of statically typed programmin...

I've had occasion recently to work on a compiler implemented with an attribute grammar framework. Such frameworks let you declare attrib...

Artima has graciously agreed to post the first edition of Programming in Scala online for free . It's now easier than ever to learn abo...

Andrew Appel reminds the public that good election protocols were historically rather difficult to develop: Democratic elections present a...

I like the latest ideas from Dan Wallach about building better infrastructure for browsers to detect impostor web sites. First, there...

Since writing that economics has an online open-access journal , I've been informed that computer science has at least one: Logical Meth...