Is there a way out of the Java jail? You bet! CodeToJoy: An open-source project surprised industry insiders today by announcing an implementation of the Java programming language on the JVM.The language, dubbed jJava, reflects the current trend for using the JVM as a systems platform for various languages. Bruce Eckel: Would it make sense to...

Is there a way out of the Java jail? You bet! CodeToJoy: An open-source project surprised industry insiders today by announcing an implementation of the Java programming language on the JVM.The language, dubbed jJava, reflects the current trend for using the JVM as a systems platform for various languages. Bruce Eckel: Would it make sense to...

... why aren't its extra-web-browser versions being used widely. Here's my observation: If people wanted to, they can use JavaScript for: Windows shell scripting (JScript Windows scripting host) General purpose Windows/.NET programming (JScript.NET) General purpose dynamic language programming for the JVM (Rhino) General purpose Unix...

... why aren't its extra-web-browser versions being used widely. Here's my observation: If people wanted to, they can use JavaScript for: Windows shell scripting (JScript Windows scripting host) General purpose Windows/.NET programming (JScript.NET) General purpose dynamic language programming for the JVM (Rhino) General purpose Unix...

Hurb Sutter: For me, easily the biggest news of the meeting was that we voted lambda functions and closures into C++0x. I think this will make STL algorithms an order of magnitude more usable, and it will be a great boon to concurrent code where it's important to be able to conveniently pass around a piece of code like an object, to be...

Hurb Sutter: For me, easily the biggest news of the meeting was that we voted lambda functions and closures into C++0x. I think this will make STL algorithms an order of magnitude more usable, and it will be a great boon to concurrent code where it's important to be able to conveniently pass around a piece of code like an object, to be...

Write a valid Scala program that contains the following passage: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in...

Write a valid Scala program that contains the following passage: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in...

Take a look at the following snippet of valid C++ code ... group = '(' >> expr >> ')'; fact = integer | group; term = fact >> *( ('*' >> fact) | ('/' >> fact) ); expr = term >> *( ('+' >> term) | ('-' >> term) ); ... and tell me C++ is not the perfect language for DSLs! ;=) Seriously,...

Take a look at the following snippet of valid C++ code ... group = '(' >> expr >> ')'; fact = integer | group; term = fact >> *( ('*' >> fact) | ('/' >> fact) ); expr = term >> *( ('+' >> term) | ('-' >> term) ); ... and tell me C++ is not the perfect language for DSLs! ;=) Seriously,...

I am a good pragmatic programmer. I follow the The Pragmatic Programmer recommendation of learning a new programming language a year. At least I try to. But I'm having trouble with Scala. Last Friday, at the OCI internal Java lunch, Tim Dalton gave a presentation on Scala. This one is very similar to the one Tim gave at the St. Louis JUG...

I am a good pragmatic programmer. I follow the The Pragmatic Programmer recommendation of learning a new programming language a year. At least I try to. But I'm having trouble with Scala. Last Friday, at the OCI internal Java lunch, Tim Dalton gave a presentation on Scala. This one is very similar to the one Tim gave at the St. Louis JUG...

... if C|Net tells you Microsoft to work with Eclipse on Java? Well, Ted Neward is setting us an example: Ted Neward: My first reaction has to be characterized as... WTF?!? My second reaction has to be characterized as... WTF?!? There's some serious credulity issues here. Not credibility, mind you, because I believe the reporter is...

... if C|Net tells you Microsoft to work with Eclipse on Java? Well, Ted Neward is setting us an example: Ted Neward: My first reaction has to be characterized as... WTF?!? My second reaction has to be characterized as... WTF?!? There's some serious credulity issues here. Not credibility, mind you, because I believe the reporter is...

The state of high school education is a hot topic among some of my friends and colleagues. I have heard older people say that the US high school education, especially mathematics and sciences, has declined considerably over the past fifty years. I've also heard people who received high school education from a different part of the world...