Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Functional objects is a presentation by Matthias Felleisen from ECOOP 2004. It was mentioned more than a few times during the past month on the PLT discussion list. Though it is 74 pages, it doesn’t feel very long; and there is a lot of good content in there. “Java people” will even be happy to [...]
At one time or another you have probably heard the claim made that since you can utilize closures while programming in Lisp, there is no need to utilize an object system. That claim is sort of a half-truth. While closures are the language construct that allow you to create objects, they certainly don’t provide you [...]