Scala variadic functions and Seq...

Javascript: why Object.keys(someobject), rather than someobject.keys?...

Why differentiate, at a syntactic level, between interface and abstract class?...

Reified generics in Scala on .NET/CLR...

Any reason for having "val capacity : Int" instead of "val Int Capacity" in Scal...

Right behavior for variable-arity sum function...

Does any other language other than JavaScript have a difference between brace start locations (same ...

c++ why isn't there something like length(array)?...

in java, why do closured variables need to be declared final?...

What is the rationale in allowing `?` to be escaped?...

Reasoning for Language-Required Variable Name Prefixes...

Are there any right associative short-circuit operators...

Chained invocation in Java 7?...

Is the foreach in VB.NET faster than in c#?...

Type id to the left or right of var id?...

Why is boolean the only type for which there are no coercions or casts defined?...

Why is dynamical selection of column & table names so difficult in SQL?...

why did K&R make &&, || logical and &, | bitwise, not the other way around?...

In an interpreter, what (usually) comes after the lexer?...

Writing a mini-language...

Why are functions like escape, unescape, etc, not methods on the String object?...

Why is it mandatory that there should be a possibility of exception throwing in a try to write a cat...

Syntax choice for type parameter variance in C# and VB...

Why doesn't deferred execution cache iterative values?...

Zero-based month numbering...

Why Java can take multiple parameters but can return only a single object?...

Why does C# implement pre/post-increment/decrement operators for floating point types?...

Python History and Design: Why issubclass() instead of rich comparisons?...

Would C/C++/Pascal/etc. be substantially slower if it was a stackless language?...

Why does `ScalaObject` exist?...