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C-11 is about algorithms (more specifically, the requirements that govern algorithms) and discoverability. The former CRTC commissioner as well as the senate confirmed that user ge…

It's not the source of the funding that makes the CBC biased. It's all the exemptions and correspondence between the CBC and cabinet, the treasury board, and other arms of the gove…

I'm a Canadian who's been following C-11 and before that C-10 for the 2 years the government has been working to pass this legislation. Here is the best summary I've read so far: h…

For Canada, Toronto and Vancouver are considered distinct from the rest of their provinces, but not Montreal from the rest of Quebec.

-reified generics: From what I've seen, the Ceylon guys have done a good job of implementing this and they make flow-sensitive typing possible. Without out, the benefits of union t…

Experimental support for higher order generics will be in 1.2 (JavaScript runtime only): http://ceylon-lang.org/blog/2015/06/03/generic-function-refs... http://ceylon-lang.org/blog…

Optional (either JDK or Guava) is not perfect but is infinitely better than hand-checking for null. Among other things, it expresses the intent of the API writer that their method …

What well-designed language doesn't do this?

Sorry, but I don't understand your point about instanceof/casting and how this relates to constructors. Please elaborate.

Gavin's looking for positive feedback on this since he wants the community to buy into this, so please give encouragement if you want this feature. It's currently experimental and …

Java interop is way better with Ceylon 1.1. For example, use-site variance for generics was introduced and overloading bugs have been resolved. Ceylon 1.2 will have constructors (t…

What's wrong with Ceylon's type system? I find it incredibly well designed. For instance, the Ceylon compiler won't allow you to assign null to a non-optional variable. Also, there…

I disagree about the dots and parents. It impacts readability because the person reading the code, which most developers do 90% to 95%. If different developers on the team use diff…

I disagree. I think Scala suffers from Perlisms like being too succinct and more than one way of doing things (ex omitting dots and parens to invoke a method). There are newer alte…

Scala isn't the only alternative JVM language that has a superior generics implementation and that doesn't have primitives. What neither Scala nor those languages have is support f…