The Future of Programming Languages
Lately I’ve been a bit concerned. One of the things I love about the internet is that it allows anyone to invent something like a programming language or a blogging system. That’s really good. But what’s bad is that it seems like there are a lot of lessons we should have learned from the past that [...]
Garbage Collection Gets a Bad Rap
Today I was searching for information why the iPhone doesn’t implement garbage collection. Programs using Cocoa for the Mac do have garbage collection available. Everywhere I looked I saw people stating their opinion that garbage collection was not implemented because it was a performance hog and would reduce battery life. Now, this may be the case, [...]