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• Arrays considered somewhat harmful

  I got a moral question from an author of programming language textbooks the other day requesting my opinions on whether or not beginner programmers should be taught how to use arrays. Rather than actually answer that question, I gave him a long list of Read More... Posted Monday, September 22, 2008 11:04 AM by Eric Lippert | 58 Comments Filed under: Performance, Rants, C#, Code Quality, Threading, Software development methodology, Immutability, Arrays

• High maintenance

  The other day I went to buy some snack from the snack machine in the kitchen. The snack I wanted was in slot B-10, so I put in my coins, press B - one - zero, hey wait a minute there's no zero button! And why is it serving me up the snack on the left Read More... Posted Monday, September 08, 2008 9:36 AM by Eric Lippert | 45 Comments Filed under: Rants, C#, Code Quality