Saturday March 29, 2008
words of power from the ancient world
Hammering my way through a posting on the JVM and continuations, I realized again how oddly poetic are some of our terms of art. Some of them seem to have been with us from the dawn of the single-threaded stored-program computing machine. Terms like “continuation&rdquo, “closure&rdquo, “thunk&rdquo, even “call&rdquo and “loop&rdquo are metaphoric, evocative, polyvalent, elusive of final definition. What I mean is, they are poetic...[Read More]Posted by jrose [General] ( March 29, 2008 12:28 PM ) Permalink | Comments[3]
Friday August 25, 2006
Closures without Function Types
Java needs (a) better closures and (b) slightly better type parameters but not (c) function types. Let's examine the last first...[Read More]Posted by jrose [General] ( August 25, 2006 11:30 AM ) Permalink | Comments[1]
Friday July 30, 2004
on keeping silent
We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room.... (Austen, P&P, ch. 18)Posted by jrose [General] ( July 30, 2004 03:20 PM ) Permalink | Comments[2]