Lex Spoon

Today I ran into a great book chapter by Erik Kuefler and Lisa Carey about Google's build system philosophy . It's all very good, bu...

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...

Here's a sampling trick that comes up all the time in industry, but that took me a while to work out. The problem goes like this: Su...

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...