Effective Java is book in the Effective series, started by Scott Meyers with the excellent book Effective C++. The general format of the series is to present topics of high importance for intermediate to advanced users. The goal is not to teach the mechanics of the language, but the fine topics that make the difference…
When writing a method, one of the first decisions is the signature of the method, that is, its name and the parameters that need to be supplied to the method. The name of a method is an important decision, but let us skip it for a while. Let us just consider the number of parameters…
From time to time I like to check on the evolution of dynamic languages, just to see what I am missing as a Java/C++ programmer. It is always an interesting travel, and each time I feel that the future will be really far away from the C-like languages that we currently use. Last week, I…