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I gave a talk entitled “Change is the Only Constant” (video) at the excellent Voxxed Days conference in Zurich last month. It got a little attention on Twitter, particularly this slide, tweeted by Mario Fusco: The point of the slide is that immutability is, strictly speaking, an all-or-nothing proposition: mutability anywhere in a data structure […]

Yesterday I heard that O’Reilly Media, publishers of Java Generics and Collections, have approved a proposal for a second edition. This news came from Zan McQuade, Programming Languages acquisition editor at O’Reilly, whose strategies for acquiring content include indefatigable patience—she calmly waited out two years of silence from me after I first pitched the idea […]

I don’t suppose that outside academic circles the name of Edsger Dijkstra is nowadays familiar to many people, but it should be: he was a giant of computing science who could claim, over the four decades of his research and teaching, extraordinary achievements that included the first Algol-60 compiler; the popularisation of structured programming (he […]