It is not a secret to experienced developers that most of the work in modern programming consists of interfacing application code with external libraries. For instance, if you work on application programming (as opposed to system development), there is no reason why you should be required to write another logging package or another data base…
A few years ago I visited a friend who is a graduate student in linguistics. After some time he asked me if I was aware of the work by Chomsky on formal languages. I told him that yes, Chomsky work was a basis for much of the developments in theoretical computer science. More than that,…
The concept of data types is one of the most powerful in the study of programming languages. Many languages have been devised with the main goal of delivering a type system with improved capabilities. Some of these languages coming from research labs, such as ML and Haskell, have become successful in their own right. Other…