Tag Archives: programming languages

Dev in rio 2009

Posted on 28. Aug, 2009 by guilhermesilveira.

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Some good friends from globo.com (Guilherme) and myfreecomm (Henrique) have invited two speakers from the Caelum team to talk about Java at this year’s Dev in Rio. Guilherme and Henrique will start the event monday morning and after that me and Nico Steppat will talk about how new modern languages (either dynamic, functional, more or [...]

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To break or not to break? Java 7?

Posted on 17. Aug, 2009 by guilhermesilveira.

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There is a short slide show to illustrate some thoughts. There will be better ones in the near future. When is the right timing to break compatibility of a public api regarding its previous versions? Well, in the open source communites there is a common sense that a library is allowed to cause some migration [...]

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Comprehensible languages x Expressive code x The other side of the world

Posted on 12. Jul, 2009 by guilhermesilveira.

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One reason to care about expressiveness Most developers agree nowadays that mantaining software is an important task, either refactoring it as a task is completed or one year later when new functionalities are added, the cost of maintainability should be kept as low as possible in most cases. Mentioning most cases, i automatically exclude pieces [...]

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