March 2006 - Posts

• Delegates, Lambdas, Type Inference and Long Playing Records

  Today is my 33 1/3rd birthday! I'm one third of the way through my first century. I feel like I should go buy some LPs to celebrate, not that I have anything that will play them. In other news, someone sent me this code the other day. Suppose you've got Read More... Posted Friday, March 31, 2006 10:17 AM by Eric Lippert | 3 Comments Filed under: C#, Lambda Expressions, Type Inference

• The Root of All Evil, Part Two

  There were a number of interesting comments to yesterday's posting about premature optimization. Several readers pointed out that there are various options we could take: Do nothing. Maintain backwards compatibility and spec incompatibility. Change the Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 29, 2006 2:45 PM by Eric Lippert | 7 Comments Filed under: C#, Breaking Changes

• The Root Of All Evil, Part One

  People often quote Knuth's famous statement that premature optimization is the root of all evil. Boy, has that ever been the theme of my life these last few weeks as I've been banging my head against the compiler trying to figure out how we're going to Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 28, 2006 11:18 AM by Eric Lippert | 27 Comments Filed under: C#, Breaking Changes

• Back in the saddle

  Hey everyone, I'm back. Sorry for the two-month absence there. We've been absolutely INSANELY busy trying to figure out how to make the LINQ features work in C# 3.0 for the last two months. Add on top of that the fact that I've been running lights for Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 28, 2006 10:28 AM by Eric Lippert | 2 Comments