In programming, there are two extremes that are consistently travelled by developers. One is to write code that is not extensible, which implements functionality but provides no avenues for extensibility. This is the mistake made by most people starting in the profession. The other extreme of the spectrum is mostly done by people that are…
One of the more interesting aspects of programming is the relation software developers have with the products they create. Software engineers have to spend so many hours literally crafting a software product, that they consider the software as theirs. It is a relationship that becomes very complicated, however, because there is another element in the…
In the last years, fuctional programming languages such as Haskel, F#, and clojure, have gained acceptance among programming enthusiasts. They allow a concise style of programming that is not easy to replicate with imperative languages. Much of the power of functional programming languages is linked to the existence of closures. A closure is a way…