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  Is "Performance" Subjective or Objective in nature? (Editor's note: This post is likely to open a huge can of whoop-*ss on this blog, so unless you want to get caught up in the huge bar fight that's about to break out, you're advised to take your whiskey or beer and head outside for a smoke... Posted Apr 10 2008, 08:34 PM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: blog entry, dynamic language, benchmarks, amp nbsp, scala, perf, groovy, discrepancy, spiewak, mop, bar fight, option type, meta programming, whoop, gradient, metaobject protocol, ray tracer, optimizer, performance times, disbelievers

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  eWeek posts a review of the TSSJS Languages Keynote Quick note before I head off to the conference center to do the Scala talk: Darryl Taft covers the "Why the Next Five Years..." keynote from TSSJS . Thanks, Darryl. Update: Just noticed that Darryl also covered Brian's and my "SOAP... Posted Mar 28 2008, 11:35 AM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: xml services, enterprise consulting, mentoring, scala, soap, next five years, taft

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  Why we need both static and dynamic in the same language Stu demonstrates one of the basic problems with an all-dynamic language: "I just spent an hour figuring out why some carefully-tested code went no-op after adding RSpec to a project." As much as I berate Stu at times (both in person and in blog... Posted Feb 18 2008, 04:22 AM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: s type, programming language, dynamic languages, ruby, dynamic language, static analysis tool, scala, elegance, cobra, rspec, first class, modern language, shivers, programming skill, type inferencing, dynamic features, sense of responsibility, groovy, enterpri, language designer

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  Highlights of the Lang.NET Symposium, Day Three (from memory) My Mac froze when I tried to hook it up to the projector in the afternoon to do a 15-minute chat on Scala, thus losing the running blog entry in its entirety. Crap. This is my attempt to piece this overview together from memory--accordingly, details may... Posted Jan 30 2008, 07:32 PM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: visual studio, blog entry, ruby, good stuff, wayne kelly, perl 6, course details, half hour, long suit, wrapper class, language specification, parsing, java object, code generation, rhino, parser generator, personal errands, gardens point, scala, fun stuff