Decision for Unchecked Exceptions in Scala
As a java programmer, I have always been critical of Unchecked Exceptions. Mostly programmers use it as an en-route to coding easiness only to create trouble later. Also the programs (though untidy) with checked exceptions are much robust compared to unchecked counterparts.
What are the advantages of Scala’s companion objects vs static methods?
Scala has no static-keyword, but instead has similar functionality through companion objects. Behind the scenes the companion objects are compiled to classes that have static methods, so all this is syntactic sugar. What are the advantages of this design choice? Disadvantages? Do other languanges have similar constructs?
Fastest Functional Language
I’ve recently been delving into functional programming especially Haskell and F#, the prior more so. After some googling around I could not find a benchmark comparison of the more prominent functional languages (Scala,F# etc).
What’s the problem with Scala’s XML literals?
In this post, Martin (the language’s head honcho) writes:
Functional programming compared to OOP with classes
I have been interested in some of the concepts of functional programming lately. I have used OOP for some time now. I can see how I would build a fairly complex app in OOP. Each object would know how to do things that object does. Or anything it’s parents class does as well. So I can simply tell Person().speak() to make the person talk.
How will the new development of Java influence its interoperability with languages like Scala and Clojure?
As far as I understand, both Scala and Clojure have been designed as new languages that
Applying Denotational Semantics to design of Programs
I’ve read a bit on denotational semantics (DS) and I’m very intrigued about the process of designing computer programs where types and functions have strong and clear mappings to mathematics.
Can Objective C categories serve the same purpose as Traits do in Scala?
The statement of the question seems little abstract to me, so please read the details below.
Using akka actors with service spring beans
Do you think that using akka actors in front of transactional service beans, is a good idea ?
Is memory management in programming becoming an irrelevant concern?
Background
I revisited an old (but great) site I had not been to for ages – the Alioth Language Shootout (http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/).