Abstract Heresies

There seem to be more readers of my posts than there used to be, so I wanted to mention a project I've been slowly working on. I've...

Pascal Costanza writes: I always find the argument that some language construct is supposedly “dangerous” a bit weird. It's too fuzzy ...

In the previous posts I discussed the advantages of procedural abstraction, showed various ways to poke holes in the abstraction, and discus...

In the previous posts I showed some problems that occur when you poke holes in the abstraction you get from procedures. By default, lexical...

Louis Reasoner doesn't care for all the work he had to do just to make it possible to read and clear the counter. He decides to write a...

In my previous post I showed one way of breaking procedural abstraction. Dynamic binding allows the details of the implementation to be vis...

I hope I'm preaching to the choir when I say that procedural abstraction is the greatest thing since sliced bread . If you're stil...