So, Charles points out a reasonably obvious point: Isn't there some way of serializing an Expression Tree?  Not that I know of, I reply.  Plus, [insert previously held belief about the state of the universe... Read More

C# certainly has a lot to like about it; it's not the "Java ripoff" it was once lambasted as. That said, for all that it offers, it tends to fall short more often than I like, and while that's occasionally...

Assert.That(Programming.Can(Be(Beautiful))); A simple way to improve intellisense when we code these interfaces is to implement an IFluentInterface interface - which simply instructs VS to hide all the...

I am very happy that this little chunk of cyberspace has spurred some thought and debate.  That makes me super happy - if there is such a thing.  I would assume that Happy implement IEmotion and such...

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An idea that, until today (to me @ least), had no name: Fluent Interfaces (thanks Charles).  The concept and implementation (in C#, at least)  is, quite simply, sweet.  as I regard the art of software... Read More

Sean... I know you're at a wedding this weekend, but you hath spake truth here my brother! C#, while Almost Awesome, is not quite so. Nor the other languages that profess to be so. Indeed, "classes...

Actually, Nick, Smalltalk's class objects are *not* alterable at runtime: They're fixed, static, unchangeable, read-only, and therefore highly amenable to gizmos like Intellisense. The original Smalltalk...

Good points, all. Sean, I agree that some dynamic languages can probably express some of these ideas natively. Sadly, I am a strong-typing and IntelliSense junky. Strong typing rocks. Strong type inferencing...