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The Trouble with Checked Exceptions A Conversation with Anders Hejlsberg, Part II https://www.artima.com/articles/the-trouble-with-checked-exc...

> I very much preferred Borland from my days in Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++ Turbo Pascal was stunning for its time. A fully functional editor and fast compiler operating from a sing…

I hadn't thought about that, but you're right. My story probably makes little sense to non-programmers of that time. Going deeper, most of whatever the 20th/21st century leaves for…

When I worked at Borland way back in the early 90s most of the company wasted a year or so building OS/2 versions of our products. The PC OS story hadn't finished yet, but most of …

depends on the origin of said parachute

Well, it make dependency injection much easier in Java. But true delegation is much more, it offers a nice decoupled alternative over implementation inheritance.

Occam's razor says, no. The simpler explanation is, our reality is as it appears. The deeper questions concern consciousness. At the core I personally don't believe actors in a sim…

A static counterpart to 'this' would be nice.