My article Volta: Developing Distributed Applications by Recompiling (co-authored with Brian Beckman and Benjamin Livshits ) is now available in the Software Development Tools issue of IEEE Software (September/October 2008). Here's the abstract: Mainstream...

My colleague J.D. Meier asked for an example of what I consider to be a good pattern language . I could have recommended one of the languages that are by now classics in the patterns community . However instead of doing that I'd like to refer to examples...