Yet Another Language Geek

I love Scheme! It is such a beautiful language. I was first introduced to it during college. At that time, I thought it was an interesting language but I didn't see the power of the language until later. That moment came when I experienced reading The...

My last post described in detail how query expressions in C# are translated, but I have a confession to make. I did a little bit of hand waving through one part of the translation rules. The astute reader (whomever that is, whenever I read such things...

When I began programming in my early teens, I was very excited to learn about programming and also excited to become a "real" programmer . I remember picking up a book from the library that purported to teach what real programmers were like. I absorbed...

Evaluating Query Expressions After writing the code to translate query expressions and remove transparent identifiers, one of my first desires was to write a tool that would generate query expressions to test the correctness of the code. Of course...

Now that we have discussed some of the underpinnings of query expressions, we can turn our attention to how to use them. As has already discussed , most people who see query expressions immediately think of SQL and often even mistake query expressions...

Not long ago, I was reading through some articles posted on programming.reddit.com when I came across an article claiming that C# is trying to be a dynamic language . One user posted a comment that mentioned that C# 3.0 included among other things "embedded...