Month: September 2012

I did a talk at work about lambda functions (anonymous functions), and something possessed me to make a timeline of when they were introduced into various languages. Some languages were born with them, and some grew them later – in the latter case I gi…

Posts in this series: Syntax, Deployment, Metaprogramming, Ownership I’m going to use a word here – don’t stop reading: Metaprogramming. Does the language provide what you need to avoid repeating yourself? Repeating boilerplate code, algorithms and mos…