This weekend I got 84th place in the online 10th annual International Conference on Functional Programming contest . Not bad, given that I hadn't any intention in, you know, actually competing. The task: in this year's competition, you are given 7MB...

The other day, I was reviewing a coworker's design for an area she was writing. As she was describing the responsibilities of each class, my attention was drawn to one in particular: "Why is this method in this class Foo? I mean, it's true that the...

I suspect my coworkers may consider me mildly insane. In our group, we typically require that code must be seen and reviewed by at least one other person before checking in. I try to do my part, and tend to respond to a lot of code reviews that come...

When I began learning Erlang , the thing that intrigued me most is this wholesale rejection of the concept of "state", "side effects", or even "loops". As I got to thinking about it, the hardest programming problems I've encountered almost always had...