Monthly Archives: January 2012

Cache as cache can

Neal Ford is at it again with part 3 of his Groovy subseries, which is but a part of his broader super-series on functional programming: Functional thinking: Functional features in Groovy, Part 3: Memoization and caching.

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Never never never never never!

Dhanji R. Prasanna has some interesting things to say about the verbosity of Java. …there is little doubt that the Java language suffers from a poor character-to-instruction ratio. I call this property "expressiveness"—in other words, the number of keys you must … Continue reading

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