Archives by Tag 'closures'
Using Scala to update LiveJournal tags – Part I
Some days ago I started to use the Scala programming language to update my Livejournal tags using its XML-RPC protocol reference. First I had to check if some tags of mine were entered wrong, so I’ve done this Scala program to list all of them:
1:import org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcClient;
2:import org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcClientConfigImpl;
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"Salute #{@Ruby}!"
Some times ago I had to parse a XML messages’ file to produce some i18n properties files.
I decided to try it with Ruby, mainly because of two reasons:
I’m continuosly exploring some dynamically-typed languages, like Python and Ruby
I wanted to try the conciseness of programming with closures
So, I used the REXML API to process the XML [...]
Effective Java Programming with Joshua Bloch
Nice video from Joshua Block, Chief Java Architect at Google, talking about his Effective Java™ Programming Language Guide book and also about the consequences of adding new features on the Java language, like the closures’ proposals. He also offers an advice to the programmers, when designing API’s, classes or methods:
“When in doubt, leave it [...]
Is Java on a evolutionary dead end way?
Artima is running an article where Bruce Eckel talks about about Java’s objective on backwards compatibilities and the problem of combinatorial complexity when you combine a new feature in every possible way with the other language features already present.
It’s the combinatorial complexity that you get when you combine a new feature in every possible way [...]