language-design Examples and Free Source Code

languages that always had triple equals...

javascript ruby language-design

What's the rationale behind C's <stdlib.h> as opposed to including these functions by ...

c programming-languages language-design

Operator '??' cannot be applied to operands of type for child classes...

c#casting language-design

why there are class variables in ruby?...

ruby language-design class-variables

Fixed Object Id for System Objects and Small Integers in Ruby...

ruby programming-languages language-design language-features

What would we do without NULL?...

language-agnostic null language-design non-nullable

Does it make sense to "waste" 8 bytes per String instance for offset/count?...

java string performance memory-management language-design

Parsing math rules (with some perks) the same way Soulver (a Mac App) does...

parsing language-design

Java and .NET: Why different sorting algorithms are used by default?...

java .net algorithm sorting language-design

Which language idioms/paradigms/features make it hard to add support for "type providers"?...

c#database f#clr language-design

Are C#'s attributes better designed than Java's annotations?...

c#java attributes annotations language-design

Would it be possible to have "method/field" literals comparable to the class literals in J...

java class scala reflection language-design

General C# question...

c#exception language-design

What's a Good Way to Test that Identifiers aren't Being Truncated and Thereby Mixed Up?...

c++unit-testing language-design compiler-construction

Good language to implement for senior project?...

language-design compiler-construction

Formal treatment of RAII and/or safe deallocations in C++...

memory-management computer-science language-design raii

R: assigning tests to functions programmatically...

r language-design

Does handling recursion need special treatment when designing a compiler?...

compiler-construction recursion stack language-design language-implementation

Parser for user defined infix operators...

parsing language-design compiler-construction

Handling escape characters on custom language...

c#language-design

Is it possible to create C# language modifications as did LINQ?...

c#linq compiler-construction language-design

What's the use case of secondary constructors in abstract classes?...

scala constructor abstract-class language-design

Yet Another "Use of unassigned local variable 'whatever' " question...

c#compiler-errors language-design

Which syntax options/language features did Scala remove over time (and why)?...

scala programming-languages syntax language-design language-features

Why does the constness of a reference affect whether it can be initialized with a variable of a diff...

c++reference language-design

Why must C# extension methods be defined in static classes?...

c#static extension-methods language-design

What are the benefits of types being first-class objects?...

language-agnostic types language-design abstraction first-class

Why does this string initialization in an if statement prevent me from printing?...

c#syntax language-design if-statement

Why do object literals in javascript save unnecessary DOM references?...

javascript optimization language-design

Why do some variables being uninitialized cause an error, while others cause a warning?...

ruby language-design