Archive for March, 2009

On what Open Source is, and is not

Friday, March 27th, 2009

(accidentally deleted this post; re-adding under the same date) Just found this post on a discussion forum for an open source project called HandBrake. The author is one of the HandBrake developers, as far as I can tell. A must-read. To quote: I am aware of no open source software either currently ...

Avoiding the Next Big Language

Friday, March 27th, 2009

I was just listening to a podcast introducing the F# language, and what struck me was that the two folks being interviewed--Chris Smith and Dustin Campbell--didn't talk at any time about F# being the next big language for the CLR. Rather, they focused on what they thought the advantages were, ...