As someone doing programming language research, I find it really interesting to think about how programming language research is done, how it has been done in the past and how it should be done. This kind of questions are usually asked by philosophy of sc[...]

WebSharper development gains support for Mono framework on Linux and Mac OS X, and integration with Xamarin Studio and MonoDevelop. The preview add-in is available for testing at intellifactory/monodevelop.websharper

Big news. Microsoft releases the next c# and vb.net compiler as open source. Miquel de Icaza speaks of making it work on mono as well. It’s licensed under Apache license.

This post is the answer to yesterday's brainteaser. As a reminder, I was asking what purpose this code might have: public static class Extensions  {      public static void Add<T>(this ICollection<T> source, T item)      {          source.Add(item);     [...]

This post is the answer to yesterday’s brainteaser. As a reminder, I was asking what purpose this code might have: public static class Extensions  {      public static void Add<T>(this ICollection<T> source, T item)      {          source.Add(item);      [...]

Just a really quick one today... What's the point of this code? Does it have any point at all? public static class Extensions {     public static void Add<T>(this ICollection<T> source, T item)     {         source.Add(item);     } } [...]

Paul Schoenfelder and I are sort of trying to get more Windows developers to take a look at Elixir.  We both think Elixir’s got a great story to tell and Windows developers will be very excited when they find out more about it. In that spirit, we’ve updat[...]

Just a really quick one today… What’s the point of this code? Does it have any point at all? public static class Extensions {     public static void Add<T>(this ICollection<T> source, T item)     {         source.Add(item);     } } Bonus marks if you can [...]

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