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Beyond Dynamic Languages

Everywhere I turn, all I read about is dynamic languages. Apparently, there is a small yet growing contingent of programmers that think dynamic is the only way to go. These guys are frustrated with the shackles of static type systems that force them to Read More...
Posted Friday, April 28, 2006 9:16 AM by mattwar | 27 Comments
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YODA the Programming Language

Now that LINQ is out the door, so to speak, I can start focusing my efforts on the next next technology here at Microsoft. Ever since I joined up with the C# team nearly two years ago I’ve been frustrated by my inability to wax poetic about all the goodness Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 09, 2005 10:34 PM by mattwar | 41 Comments
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What the World is saying about LINQ

“LINQ is totally awesome. It’s like this thing that you use to condense your entire application into one line of demo code. Sweet!” - Stanley Morgan “LINQ is divine but DLINQ is a delinquent. It gives programmers too much power and makes programming against Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 21, 2005 6:07 PM by mattwar | 4 Comments

XML Generics

Designing a programming language is like inventing a metaphor for thought. Most of the time you struggle to find just the right metaphor, hoping the one you eventually choose will be the best at communicating the idea it is meant to represent. So you Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 24, 2005 1:10 AM by mattwar | 15 Comments
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Refashioning Software

In our never ending quest to provide you with better, faster, more powerful products and tools, we some time find it necessary to redo a little of what was done before, to revamp it so-to-speak, to spruce it up, to splash on a new coat of paint and add Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 14, 2004 12:22 PM by mattwar | 1 Comments
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Style is Serious

It's been difficult to focus on work lately, let alone find the time to contemplate something worthy of a blog post. The distraction of the presidential race is too compelling. My wife and I are glued to the television, CNN, FOX, MSNBC. I'm starting to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:54 PM by mattwar | 7 Comments
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Focused on the Customer

The top level management at Microsoft spend a lot of time keeping the rest of us focused on the mission, making sure that we never lose sight of the end goal, and that its all about the 'customer', not the fantastical whims of a few developers. Still, Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:25 AM by mattwar | 3 Comments
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Aspect Oriented Programming

There’s been a lot of hype lately over this new fangled paradigm known as Aspect Oriented Programming. You might have heard it mentioned on another blog or in some technical article on the fringe of the mediaverse. You probably scratched your head Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 07, 2004 5:14 PM by mattwar | 8 Comments
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Programming in the Blue

It amazes me how difficult it is to design new features to a programming language. Once a language is baked in its original form it’s almost impossible to add new semantics let alone syntax rules. Operators are hellish. You want to invent new ones, Read More...
Posted Monday, March 08, 2004 10:09 PM by mattwar | 17 Comments
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Language Inferencing

I've been involved in a lot of debates over the last few years over the merits of strongly-typed languages versus loosely-types ones. For example, vbscript and java script are generally loosely-typed languages. Local variables defined within a body of Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 2:41 PM by mattwar | 11 Comments
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