Failed Experiments

a Mr. Fleming wishes to study bugs in smelly cheese; a Polish woman wishes to sift through tons of Central African ore to find minute quantities of a substance she says will glow in the dark; a Mr. Kepler wants to hear the songs the planets sing.

Saturday, February 17, 2018

Scala FP: how good an idea now?

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Ed Kmett’s reddit comment full of biting commentary on the troubles of attempting functional programming in Scala remains the most concise ...

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Saturday, February 10, 2018

Writing about subtyping

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I want programmers to stop using subtyping, yet I keep bringing it up, in article after article. Partly that is because it is very hard to a...

Saturday, December 9, 2017

Spare me the tedium of “simple” linting, please

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In the development environments of singly-typed languages like JavaScript and Python, one popular build step for improving code quality is t...

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Or, we could not, and say we don’t have to

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I previously wrote “Values never change types” , whose central thesis statement I hope is obvious. And this still holds, but there is someth...

Thursday, July 27, 2017

Advanced type system features are [usually] a good thing

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The desire to allow more programs to be typed—by assigning more accurate types to their parts—is the main force driving research in the fie...

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