Hello, Recording of my programming languages talk at The Lead Developer conference this year is available now. It was a well run, and intimate conference despite nearly 500 attendees this year. It’s quite different from many conferences I have attended the last few years as it focuses on soft skills and leadership rather than specific technologies or languages. …
Slides and Video of programming languages talk at TheLeadDev Read More »
Great news, recording of all the talks at this year’s NDC Oslo has been uploaded to Vimeo! It’s a lot of videos to go through, so I’ve curated all the talks from the FP track this year, including my new talk “A tour of the language landscape” where I covered some interesting ideas and concepts …
Having been primarily involved with .Net languages in my career so far, homoiconicity was a new idea to me when I first encountered it in Clojure (and also later in Elixir). If you look it up on wikipedia, you’ll find the usual wordy definition that vaguely makes sense. “…homoiconicity is a property of some programming …
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In F#, you can’t overload a let-bound function, and whilst it’s a hindrance sometimes you can generally work around it easily enough since you can still overload members of a class. All you need to do is to wrap the module and constituent functions into a class and overload the class members instead. Multi-Arity Functions …
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