Why Garbage Collection is not Necessary and actually Harmful

2011-03-30

In the world of new languages it seems like garbage collection is standard feature. A way for the runtime to …

What is an atomic operation?

2011-03-23

We all know that operations in a computer happen one after the other. Having multiple CPUs and instruction reordering tends …

2011-03-10

A bane of programming is repeating code and dealing with a myriad of types. The natural response to type overload …

2011-03-08

The ideal programming language should not leak resources. Resources include not just memory, but also files, network connections, device locks, …