Lex Spoon

In a previous post, I showed that the standard build rules for C code are unreliable . Let me describe two ways to do better. In the intere...

The standard way of integrating C into a build system is to use automatic dependencies generated from the compiler . Gcc and Clang can emit ...

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

Discussion on the Scala collections revamp is starting to get mystical. It really bugs me: good language design makes a huge difference, bu...

It looks like Martin Odersky is considering an overhaul of Scala's collections : A redesign of the standard library is on the roadmap f...

Ken Clark has posted the top seven things he likes about shame mobs . Here's a taste: 5) Internet shame mobs weigh the evidence careful...

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...