Grammarware, Haskellware, XMLware

My first bet in this post is that XML Schema (XSD) is here to stay for a while. I don’t even think that there is much disagreement about this matter. Regardless of the fact that I am more of a Haskell aficionado than an OO follower, I also bet (in fact...

Most Haskell programmers have a PhD and they don’t mind overly concise notation, but there are times when the combination of Haskell features (monads, GADTs, SYB, forall, exists, rank-2, …) starts to hurt. Then it is time to switch to a more obvious notation...

I am surrounded by X/R and O/R mapping geeks here at Microsoft. (It’s building 35. So there are fewer X/O mapping geeks.) Some of my colleagues are close to a victory over the “ Vietnam of Computer Science ”. We have real mapping heroes around here: they...