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Pavel Hruby’s book, Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns (Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2006) is to my knowledge the best book on this topic. It’s a pattern book so the format is…

Have a look at remacs (an experimental Rust port of emacs, now discontinued) [1] and its successor, emacs-ng (also in Rust) [2] I haven’t followed closely, but I am sure there are …

The original Intentional Programming in the mid-nineties was a much broader vision than Language Workbenches, more like a grand unified theory of software development and related t…

Charles Simonyi and his Intentional Software tried to solve this, publishing some interesting articles in the 1990es. However their technology was not broadly used and they were ac…

He explains it in the linked video presentation which is worth watching: the value being that your parser generator will complain about any ambiguity in the grammar (shift-reduce c…

Now, it is served in avantgarde restaurants: e.g. by the Spanish Michelin star chef, Angel León. He is known as “chef del mar”, making novel dishes with the plants from the ocean i…

Around year 1000 the vikings' went to Vinland, which was their name for North America. You can read about it in two sagas: The Saga of Erik the Red (Eiríks saga rauða) has a descri…

Snodgrass wrote a whole book on that topic: Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL (1999). It is available as PDF on his publications page: https://www2.cs.arizona.e…

The Honda Myth by Masaaki Sato is an excellent book about Soichiro Honda and Takeo Fujisawa and the captivating history of how they built Honda, from motorcycles to Formula 1 and h…

The Toyota Production System was established during Shoichiro Toyoda's leadership. It is the company's "operating system" if you will, and has made an enormous impact, both in the …

The Dutch tax authority has developed RegelSpraak a controlled natural language for defining tax rules that is also formally specified and compilable to several targets. There is a…

It is a fascinating idea indeed. While Leibniz is widely known for his mathematics and philosophy, one of his lesser known ideas was the relation between law and computation. There…

My guess is that it was Prolog Development Center (PDC) [1] the company behind Turbo Prolog and Visual Prolog [2]. They built a nice business providing scheduling and planning soft…

How to pronounce scone is another divisive topic in itself. Does it rhyme with gone or cone? Linguists at Cambridge University have published a map of the regional variations: http…

If you want the high-end take on this, check out the Spanish Michelin star chef, Angel León. He is known as “chef del mar”, making novel dishes with the plants from the ocean. Here…

Just use you best judgement and you will be fine. Patterns are context specific advice about a solution and its trade-offs, not hard rules for every situation. Notice how pattern b…

This is its key weakness. You have to write many more tests and add a lot of predicates as pre/post conditions (invariants) to functions to check at runtime what a more modern comp…

Exactly. It ties to the excessive startup overhead. If you rename things and change stuff you must run the tests in a fresh JVM to ensure that everything has been evaluated in a co…

I haven’t experienced this with Fleet after using it some months. However, from using the other JetBrains tools the performance killer for builds and indexing libraries and documen…