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The question isn't whether or not feature A can be implemented in language X, it is whether or not it has to be implemented as a local or global transformation. This is what the pa…

Closures are code+data and objects are also code+data, so adding closures to a language with an object system does not increase expressibility. The main difference is that with clo…

You misunderstand what a local syntax transformation is. A syntax transformation is just a function that takes syntax as input and returns syntax as output. The function can be arb…

This is not a meaningless comparison; it points out one of the main deficiencies of java: lack of first-class functions. The closest you can come is using anonymous inner classes, …

This is sad because this is one of the only technologies my mom is comfortable with using. She uses this service on almost a daily basis. When I called her and told her about this …

Intellij has a few features that I would have a hard time living without. Code inspection is probably the number one feature that is pretty amazing. You can configure it to check e…