Krazy Glew's Blog

Andy "Krazy" Glew is a computer architect, a long time poster on comp.arch ... and an evangelist of collaboration tools such as wikis, calendars, blogs, etc. Plus an occasional commentator on politics, taxes, and policy. Particularly the politics of multi-ethnic societies such as Quebec, my birthplace.

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Thursday, August 02, 2012

Lack of keyword parameters a big cause of programming .... errors, bugs, inefficiency

Sometimes the title says it. I wonder how much inefficiency has been introduced into programming, how many bugs caused, because positional...

Chaining, or Why You Should Stop Returning Void - Zero Wind :: Jamie Wong

Chaining, or Why You Should Stop Returning Void - Zero Wind :: Jamie Wong : Bjarne Soustrup's recommendation on how to do keywords in ...

Google "cloud" tool shortcomings

Are Google docs and blogger cloud? Whatever. Google docs: unintelligible URLs not clear how indexed they are - I do know that docs tha...

Jamie Wong's An Argument for Mutable Local History

http://jamie-wong.com/2012/05/25/an-argument-for-mutable-local-history/ Argues for mutable local history, and hence rebase. I think a...

Futures make sets safe

Set notation is very convenient. E.g. index_set = { 1, 2, 3} array[ index_set ] = 0 rather than a loop But a problem with set n...

Pattern: Ordered Lists, with Associative Lookup and Update

One of my friends (TC) complained that XML had too much order. He said that XML structs should be unordered, like Perl hashes, associative ...

Quoting is the source of much evil (or the lack thereof)

Quotification, or the lack thereof, is the source of much evil. SQL injection type errors, etc. I've written already about a modest...

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