I was pleased to see that the generated code was reasonably easy to understand
The social properties of a programming language's user community affect the technical details of the language itself.
It's been years since I gave up on chat interviews. It just seems like these don't work so well — we all feel like we are insightful judges of candidate quality, but somehow the people we hire just don't always turn out as well as we hope.
The truth is, I have mixed feelings about automated tools for code generation
Results suggest a great interest in the new features, perhaps even a pent-up demand for them.
This month, we focus in on languages. The creator of Nimrod gives you a tour of a language that compiles to C, C++, Objective-C, and JavaScript. Walter Bright fills you in on how he came to write D. The dark details of unit testing in Python are revealed, and much more!
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