Jack Cough on Software

I'm going to tell a story that I think explains Tail Calls, Tail Recursion and TCO. I might decide to post some code about it, I might n...

Today at work we went on a quest to make a piece of code as readable as possible. I'm not fully convinced that we've succeeded entir...

I App Invented all day today. Half of this was because it was fun, the other half was because it took all day to get anything reasonable don...

If you want to pass arguments to tests in SBT, you've come to the right place. First know this - it only works in certain situations, it...

  In this post I introduce Sweet, the fully complete test framework (even with IDE support) in only 99 lines of code. Sweet is compiled agai...

  Today I taught my 8 year old son Jacy how to read some simple programs. I've been taking my time in picking what to teach him next abo...

Back in February I wrote that it was time for me to go back to grad school . More or less, that time has come - I've decided to leave my...

  At a recent NYC Scala meetup, I got chatted up and basically was asked the following: I know you've been writing multi-threaded testin...

  Recently I did a (somewhat brute force) port of MultithreadedTC . All of this work stems directly from it, and I deserve basically no cred...

  I assume most people familiar with Scala are familiar with Pimp My Library . It's just a fun and useful thing to be able to add a miss...

I haven't posted in quite a while now, but only because I've been working really hard. I asked Doug Lea if I could help him on his u...

  Please submit your favorite (or least favorite) language! Added: Java, Clojure, JavaScript Scala this.computers = Array( Map("Name&q...

  I found what I consider a really great use case for using keyword arguments. I'm sure there are tons of them, I just want to list this...

  I constantly go back and tinker with my old Scala code, especially in my CPU Simulator project. When I'm in the old code I notice some...

Everything here is mostly intuitive, but I'm putting it here for personal reference. Should be helpful to a lot of people though. There&...