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Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants (Free subscription) | 13/07/2008
I see that Cedric Beust still doesn't know what he doesn't know. Here's a link to his recent presentation on language trends (PDF); reading through it, it's clear that he still has no idea what he's talking about with respect to dynamic languages. He fears them, that much is clear - here's a snippet from one of the later slides in his talk, explaining a "problem" with dynamic languages: Little help...
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Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
I see Cedric Beust has responded to Steve Yegge's post on languages - and you can tell he's basically lost for points, because he starts this way: I sent him a reaction email shortly after he posted his article, and he encouraged me to make it public in an attempt to document our two opposing viewpoint publicly. I'm happy to be the Luke Skywalker to his Darth Vader. Evil shall not prevail. Yeah Cedric,...
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Indefinite Articles (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
From April, 2006 - Cedric Beust explains “Why Ruby on Rails won’t become mainstream” Personally, I think he turned out dead wrong on this. If the AARP is building a large-scale software project in Ruby-on-Rails, with the ongoing back-and-forth between Django and Rails, and the various efforts to “port” rails to other languages, I think it [...]
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Weiqi Gao's Observations (Free subscription) | 17/01/2008
Forwarded message included. Cedric Beust : Rick Hightower posted an interesting follow-up to Zed's rant against Ruby on Rails. There are a lot of insightful comments in this discussion, and one in particular caught my attention: People are tired of dealing with Java's many idiosyncrasies I've been reading this a lot these past years but I've yet to see any evidence of it. Come to think of it, this...
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java.blogs (Free subscription) | 31/10/2007
TheServerSide.com: News "Next Generation Java Testing," written by Cedric Beust and Hani Suleiman, focuses on two primary subject areas: TestNG and the application of testing patterns. It's an excellent book - readable, with lots of content applicable regardless of the testing framework you employ.
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Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 03/10/2007
A note on Cedric Beust's Erlang scepticism, concurrency, Java, and abstractions
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Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants (Free subscription) | 27/09/2007
I love this notion that having manifest type information tells you anything of value. Here's Cedric Beust on the matter: This "continuous tax" is defined by the fact that when you need to maintain or use an API that was written in a language such as Ruby or Python, you have very little information available to you, and even if you eventually figure it out by looking at the sources of the tests (does...
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Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 27/09/2007
Yesterday, Cedric Beust, the creator of TestNG, posted a serious entry in his blog about the pros and cons of using dynamically-typed languages . Actually, his comments were purely cons -- the only positive mention was inside a brief quote from "Crazy" Bob Lee, praising Ruby for its speed of development. As far as I can tell, Cedric was mostly crafting an excuse to call me a "Ruby on Rails bigot"....
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Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 23/09/2007
Interesting thoughts by Cedric Beust on both Erlang, the language, and “Programming Erlang”, the book....
