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• Five-Dollar Words For Programmers, Part Four: Boustrophedonic

  Here’s an almost useless but thoroughly delightful five-dollar word. English of course is read left-to-right. Hebrew and Arabic are read right-to-left. A text is boustrophedonic if it reads left-to-right and right-to-left, alternating . It’s from the Read More... Posted Thursday, March 26, 2009 6:39 AM by Eric Lippert | 14 Comments Filed under: English Usage, Big Words, Scrabble

• Santalic tailfans, part two

  As I have said before many times , there is only one sensible way to make a performant application. (As an aside: perfectly good word, performant, deal with it!) That is: Set meaningful, measurable, customer-focused goals. Write the code to be as clear Read More... Posted Friday, February 06, 2009 10:19 AM by Eric Lippert | 36 Comments Filed under: Performance, C#, Code Quality, Scrabble

• A nasality talisman for the sultana analyst

  The other day my charming wife Leah and I were playing Scrabble Brand Crossword Game (a registered trademark of Hasbro and Mattel) as is our wont. I went first, drawing the Q and a bunch of vowels. Knowing that the Q is death to hold onto, I immediately Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2009 1:52 PM by Eric Lippert | 24 Comments Filed under: Performance, C#, Scrabble