Blogs

The Java Posse interview with Brian Goetz and Bill Pugh cleared up how Scala supports tail recursion in spite of the JVM's lack of support. Brian Goetz did a great job of explaining that currently compiler writers have to build in the support (which Scala does) because the language doesn't support...

The whole idea behind CodeMash is to get people to learn something about languages, platforms, etc. that they don't typically use for programming, to "free their minds". I was thrilled to hear Brian Goetz express that sentiment in such a positive manner, in his interview with Chris Woodruff...