Ever since it was announced that Dart would be announced at GOTO conference I’ve been wonder what dart would be like. I thought I’d take the time put down my initial thoughts here. Is there a need for another language? Tim Anderson poses the question nicely here, so I thought I’d have a stab at answering it. There are a lot of programming languages in the world, so there would seem to be limited space for a new one. However, I think Google are creating this language for two reasons: 1) they want improve[...]

OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. Dr. Alan Kay, http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay_oop_en

I’ve been playing with Iteratees lately in my work with Dave on fracture-io. The Iteratee module used in this post is part of the FSharpx library and provides a set of types and functions for building compositional, input processing components. A fold, by any other name A common scenario for I/O processing is parsing an [...]