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Tuesday, December 26, 2006 8:43 PM

A Model for Query Interpretation

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, I
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006 2:01 AM

Reading and Writing Queries

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
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Friday, December 22, 2006 11:20 PM

Thus Quoth the Humble Programmer

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
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Friday, December 22, 2006 7:53 PM

Transparent Identifiers

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
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Thursday, December 21, 2006 10:35 PM

Comprehending Comprehensions

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
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006 9:06 PM

Types of confusion

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
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