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Monday, May 07, 2007 10:23 PM

Using LINQ for Computational Genomics

I’ve been playing around a bit lately with computational genomics (I’m doing a project for my parallel computation class). I wanted to write some simple algorithms that operate on potentially large amounts of DNA data without using a ton of RAM. For example,
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Thursday, June 01, 2006 6:44 PM

More on generic variance

In my entry on generic variance in the CLR , I said that you can’t convert a List<String> to a List<Object>, or even an IEnumerable<String> to IEnumerable<Object>. I should point out however that the real-world scenarios where
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Sunday, September 25, 2005 1:10 PM

Linq and the cost of additional language complexity

Uwe Keim posted a thought provoking comment in response to my entry about Linq . Here is an excerpt: I do see the benefits, but I also have a big déjà vû: The C#-language seems to go the C++-way, where I, even after 10 years of programming, don't know
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Saturday, September 24, 2005 9:59 PM

Comparison of a simple select statement in DLinq (C# 3.0) vs. ADO.Net

Six months ago I posted a comparison of a simple select statement in C-omega vs. ADO.Net which some people found very exciting. Now that Linq has been officially unveiled, I figured I should update my comparison using C# 3.0 and DLinq . Although Linq
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 3:07 PM

Interested in C-omega? LINQ finally announced!

Ever since I started planning for my users-group talk (and wrote this blog entry ) about data access with C-omega, I've been dying to tell everyone about the plans to add similar functionality to C#. For those of you at my talk, you'll remember this video
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Monday, April 04, 2005 9:48 PM

Comega talk

On Thursday I gave a .NET users group talk on Comega to somewhere around 100 .NET developers. Overall I think it went pretty well. I was nervous at first, but once I got into talking about the cool stuff I like I forgot about the pressure and had a good
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Sunday, March 20, 2005 6:30 PM

Comparison of a simple select statement in C-omega vs. ADO.Net

In a couple weeks, I'm doing a talk at a .NET users group in Ontario about Cω . Cω is a cool research language from Microsoft Research that extends C# with direct support for data access (SQL and XML) and concurrency abstractions. I’ve been planning on
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005 11:00 PM

Generic type parameter variance in the CLR

When people start using C# generics for the first time, they are sometimes surprised that they can’t convert between related generic instances. For example, since you can convert a string to an object , shouldn’t you also be able to convert a List <string>
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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 11:07 PM

"Hello world" quiz answers

Matthew Cosier was the first person to post correct answers to all my Hello, World quiz questions , good work Matthew! Here are the answers with some details and links: System.Console.WriteLine(“Hello World!”) Visual Basic .NET - note the lack of a semi-colon
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 8:24 PM

Disruptive Programming Language Technologies

"Disruptive Programming Language Technologies" ( video , slides ) is one of my favorite talks on the future of programming languages. The talk is by Todd Proebsting , who is a senior researcher at the Microsoft Center for Software Excellence (formerly
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Sunday, February 06, 2005 7:10 PM

Hello, World!

Hi, my name is Rick Byers. I’m a developer on the Common Language Runtime (CLR) team at Microsoft. I work on the debugger services team where our main deliverable is the ICorDebug API which debuggers like Visual Studio use to debug managed code. Mike
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