Everything I know about programming in bullet form.

YAGNI stands for "You aren't going to need it", and is a fundamental anti-principle of the Agile software development philosophy. However designs which plan for change are not YAGNI's.

The next Heron release will be replacing the interface construct with the concept construct.

Why don't open source developers just put their code into the public domain?

YARD, the compile-time recursive descent parser generation framework has spwaned its first offspring, Biscuit.

I have decided to focus my energies on making sure the next version of Heron is a lot more practical. I have decided to put aside some of my more ambitious features and return to the basics of a succesful language: tools, libraries, and ease of use.

I have been thinking about making functions and classes equivalent in Heron, but I can't figure out where I stole the idea from.

Here is some Java code which uses the BCEL to convert a class file into java byte code.

I have recently updated my constrained_value class which among other things allows one to easily define range checking integers.

Until relatively recently programming languages have fit neatly into either "imperative" or "functional" categories. Scala represents a new breed of language which obliterates these arbitrary restrictions.

Recently Maksym Motornyy proposed on the Boost mailing list, a macro library for typesafe enums. This is not the first time someone has suggested macros for enhancing macros. I wish to demonstrate that you don't have to resort to macros for typesafe enums.

I have been talking a lot about methods for contract verification lately, so I decided to share a real-world example involving an arbitrary precision integer.

The C++ functional header provides a way to bind values to function arguments. Here is a way to bind functions to function arguments using a technique I'm calling meta-binders for lack of a better term.

Here is a method for for representing and computing rows and columns at compile-time, and to do matrix multiplication accordingly. (trickier than it might sound)

The boost::any type is a very important type in that it can hold any object which has a copy-constructor. However if you don't want to hold a copy of the value you can instead refer to the object using the ootl::any_ptr type.