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TDD Reloaded

Jun 26, 2024 · 4 min read

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Test driven development is a beast to tame. I like TDD but in the past it was quite difficult to achive, at least in a pure-consultant approach with a "turn key" framework behind.

Latency numers every programmer should know

Aug 23, 2023 · 2 min read

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Latency numers every programmer should know

Modern computer are very very very fast. C/64 was about 1Mhz and you can hangs it just throwing a 10.000 cycle in interpreted BASIC v2 language.

HP48 and FORTH

Feb 4, 2023 · 1 min read

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On these days I stumbled upon Forth, a 1970 programming language which is quite similar to HP48 internal programming language.

On Constants

Oct 4, 2019 · 1 min read

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I think constants are evil (just joking but….I will explain why).

Rust Programming Language

Sep 23, 2019 · 1 min read

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I have done a quick peek of the Rust Programming language: it is very popular on Internet, it rivals with Go on the popularity score.

GraalVM

Jun 9, 2019 · 1 min read

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GraalVM is a universal virtual machine for running applications written in JavaScript, Python, Ruby, R, JVM-based languages like Java, Scala, Kotli

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Comments are evil?

Apr 14, 2019 · 1 min read

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In the 1980 comments were used to reduce the “gap” between unstructured code and “rationale” behind the code.

OOP is the your new legacy

Dec 19, 2016 · 2 min read

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Today I took a light rail with my son, to bring him to school. That tram is 90 years old. It has been maintained for 90 years. Milan city sold some of them to San Francisco too.

Erlang: a lesson to learn…again!

Jun 25, 2015 · 5 min read

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Erlang is a great language.

[2019-UPDATE] Erlang 22 is OUT, so I wanna to come to the party!

On April 2015, Erlang father’s Joe Armstrong give us a very interesting lesson I want to tell about.

There was a long thread titled “Erlang and Akka, The Sequel” on the erlang mailing list, reasoning about the need of some standard pattern on Promises and Future. A lot of JavaScript libraries deal about that (also jQuery has its implementation). I want to report the Joe Amstrong reply because it give us a very clear understanding on the reason Erlang is different and you should at least try it once.

Tool Command Language: il papa’ di Java

Dec 21, 2012 · 5 min read

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E’ notizia fresca di stampa il rilascio di Tcl 8.6, che introduce parecchie novità a dispetto del fatto che sia una “minor” release.

In particolatre Tcl 8.6 introduce un motore “stackless”, integra nel linguaggio le estensioni OOP, ed aggiunge le coroutine.

Parliamo quindi diffusamente di Tcl, un linuaggio che ho sempre trascurato perché mi sembrava macchinoso e un po’ brutto/fatto male…ma mi sono dovuto ricredere.

JavaScript Wars: Xtend

Nov 20, 2011 · 2 min read

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And so Java, the old old King is still alive.

(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))

Oct 24, 2011 · 1 min read

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(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))

I like a lot of programming languages. I do not love them with the same intensity.

Dart Sith move first

Oct 13, 2011 · 3 min read

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So Dart Sith has just launched his first DeathStar, my young JavaScript fellow: a site devoted to the Dart language

Because I am a very old Jedi (1974, before ever the first WtartWars trilogy showdown) I had to rest a bit before talking about it, so the news is 4-days old I know. I needed to think, reflect and write down: but now I am ready, Read on…

JavaScript War: Prologue

Sep 15, 2011 · 3 min read

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Be strong young Jedi. This war will begin shortly. You can try to keep you jdk under your pillow, but the html5 will hit you in the middle of the night. And a knife in the dark will rise from shadow: JavaScript

Functional Programming In Depth, part II:Python and Scala retrospection

Aug 29, 2011 · 3 min read

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This is the second article on functional programming. In the first one we talked about scala and the type inference system it brings in the Java Way of Life.

I played a bit with python functional howto, building a small game. Before starting I surfing for a bit of libraries and documentation.