In recent years, we have seen a dramatic rise in the number of languages used in mainstream projects. In particular, languages which run on the JVM or CLR have become quite popular (probably because sane people hate dealing with x86 assembly). Naturally, such languages prefer to interoperate with other languages built on these core platforms, […]
Quite some time ago, a smart cookie named Phillip Wadler authored a publication explaining the concept of “parser combinators”, a method of representing the well-understood concept of text parsing as the composition of atomic constructs which behaved according to monadic law. This idea understandably captured the imaginations of a number of leading researchers, eventually developing […]
As I have previously written, I have recently been spending some time experimenting with various aspects of Scala, including some of the frameworks which have become available. One of the frameworks I have had the privilege of using is the somewhat unassumingly-titled Specs, and implementation of the behavior-driven development methodology in Scala.
Specs takes full advantage […]
One of the truly incredible things about Scala is that it really inspires people to consider problems that they never would have attempted before. Recently, the urge came upon me to try my hand at some more advanced text processing. Not quite so advanced as a full language, but more complicated than can be easily […]
When I started learning Scala, I was convinced that its designers were positively the worst marketers I had ever seen. The official project page was (and is) peppered with Scala examples of things like quicksort, factoring, prime number sieves and so on. All of these examples were written in such a way as to be […]