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Alan Turing Wrote Object-Oriented Code In C And Ran It On BEAM – De Programmatica Ipsum

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/16

I originally missed this as back then I was in the midst of managing trouble in my parental family, unaware I was already having rectum cancer. Then things went fast, not even including the Covid-19 years, so I was glad last year I got reminded of this mid-2019 article:

[Wayback/Archive] Alan Turing Wrote Object-Oriented Code In C And Ran It On BEAM – De Programmatica Ipsum writes a lot of interesting things on programming paradigms, starting with

In his rare 1994 book “Object-Oriented Programming In C” Axel Tobias Schreiner explains how to do inheritance, class methods, class hierarchies, and even how to raise exceptions using nothing else than pure, simple, pointer arithmetic-filled, ANSI C.

then arguing basically most of not all modern languages share the majority of programming paradigms and all these paradigms are repeats of the past:

These days, we are using the offsprings of multiple programming paradigms having unprotected sex with one another in a thoughtful orgy. PHP, C#, Perl, C++ and even Visual Basic have all closures, lambdas or anonymous functions now. F# and Scala can instantiate any class included in their corresponding vendor-provided frameworks. JavaScript implements functions as objects with a single method .call(). Haskell comonads are actually objects. Swift 1.0 implemented instance methods as curried functions.
But none of this is new. Smalltalk, arguably the precursor of object orientation, had collect and select methods which were the grandparents of our more common map and filter functional friends.

What sets modern languages apart is that they the majority covers all the paradigms you might need, just differing in how well they support the paradigm-du-jour.

It means programming language wars should have been a thing of the past for about two decades now.

Please let that sink in.

 

Oh: if you look for that ANSI C book, here it is: [Wayback/Archive] https://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/books/ooc.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View]

 

Via: [Wayback/Archive] De Programmatica Ipsum: “”In his rare 1994 book “Object…” – mas.to

--jeroen

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badamczewski/PowerUp: ⚡ Decompilation Tools and High Productivity Utilities ⚡

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/10

Below is a really cool tool-set for Visual Studio Code of which its development started when I was recovering from life-saving bowel-surgery during the series of procedures to get rid of my metastasised rectum cancer.

It supports decompilation of various languages (.NET C# and F#, GO, Rust and clang) into either x86 assembler or IR (Intermediate Representation, on the .NET side often also called IL for Intermediate Language) to research how well a compiler stack behaves.

[Wayback/Archive] badamczewski/PowerUp: ⚡ Decompilation Tools and High Productivity Utilities ⚡:

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sharplab.io – ashmind/SharpLab: .NET language playground

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/08

[Wayback/Archive] ashmind/SharpLab: .NET language playground is hosted on [Wayback/Archive] SharpLab.io  and has this README:

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Not sure I like this without tail recursion

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/07

A while ago Andy Gocke posted this bit of C# 11 code:

[Wayback/Archive] Andy Gocke on Twitter: “Can’t believe none of that “C# is turning into F#” people have noted that this is legal code in C# 11″

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awaescher/Fusion: 🧰 A modern alternative to the Microsoft Assembly Binding Log Viewer (FUSLOGVW.exe)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/18

[Wayback/Archive] awaescher/Fusion: 🧰 A modern alternative to the Microsoft Assembly Binding Log Viewer (FUSLOGVW.exe)

So, do you know what “Enable immersive logging” means? Or why you should separate log categories from “Default” and “Native Images”? Did you ever forget to disable the log again and wondered why every .NET application was that slow and your disk ran out of space?

Forget all the setup upfront – just hit “Record” to capture your assembly logs. If you are done, click “Stop” again. That’s it.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Meik Tranel on Twitter: “@Nick_Craver Take this: github.com/awaescher/Fusion Nice UI and never forget to disable that env var ever again.”.

–jeroen

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Mad With PowerShell: FileInfo and DirectoryInfo objects are not populated upon creation in PowerShell

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/16

[WayBack] Mad With PowerShell: FileInfo and DirectoryInfo objects are not populated upon creation in PowerShell.

TL;DR:

  • Apart from the FullName property, the other poprerties of FileInfo and DirectoryInfo are populated later than their instance creation
  • A call to their Refresh method populates or re-populates them
  • That method is implicitly called when you request other properties than FullName

Example: see the [Archive.is]fileinfo.cs: Length property

–jeroen

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Draft – .NET Glossary Diagram – Scott Hanselman

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/10

By now this should be out of [WayBackDraft – .NET Glossary Diagram – Scott Hanselman: a list of common terms to describe various parts of the .NET ecosystem.

He has a nice list of sentences where each term is used.

I’ll try to use them myself as well, so I gave it a start at paulcbetts/refit: The automatic type-safe REST library for Xamarin and .NET.

–jeroen

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Let’s stop copying C / fuzzy notepad

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/07

Ah, C. The best lingua franca we have… because we have no other lingua francas. Linguae franca. Surgeons general? C is fairly old — 44 years, now! — and comes from a time when there were possibly more architectures than programming languages. It works well for what it is, and what it is is a relatively simple layer of indirection atop assembly. Alas, the popularity of C has led to a number of programming languages’ taking significant cues from its design, and parts of its design are… slightly questionable. I’ve gone through some common features that probably should’ve stayed in C and my justification for saying so. The features are listed in rough order from (I hope) least to most controversial. The idea is that C fans will give up when I call it “weakly typed” and not even get to the part where I rag on braces. Wait, crap, I gave it away.

Great re-read towards the end of the year: [WayBackLet’s stop copying C / fuzzy notepad

Via: [WayBack] Old and busted: emacs vs vi. New and hot: Language war, everybody against everybody else. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

–jeroen

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.net – xcopy ASP.NET / WinForms deployment: find common location to access relative files to it (via: Stack Overflow)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/25

StackOverflow user Joe (sorry, no last name) helped me big time by answering my question on Business logic shared by ASP.NET / WinForms: find the location of the assembly to access relative files to it.

Before showing the code at the bottom of this blog post, let me explain the question in more detail:

Basically I was in the midst of refactoring some ‘inherited’ business logic code that – before refactoring – for the ASP.NET side needs to be initialized with an absolute path, but on the WinForms / WPF side only with a relative path to a GetExecutingAssembly directory.

To ease xcopy deployment, I wanted all configuration settings to be relative. But I hadn’t found a common means for these platforms to obtain a directory usable as a root for accessing relative files.

That way I could put identical settings in both the Web.config and App.config, heck even generate them based on a common fragment, whithout having to hard-code absolute path names.

I knew about Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly, but in ASP.NET that location is not where the web site is (both IIS and the WebDevelopment server make use of temporary locations to store the assemblies).

ASP.NET does have Server.MapPath and HostingEnvironment.MapPath, but I didn’t want to make the business logic depend on ASP.NET.

Joe came up with this solution, which works dandy: Read the rest of this entry »

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Interesting SO question: What are the experiences with using unicode in identifiers?

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/10/29

Toon Krijthe posted an interesting question to SO.

Though 5 years old, I think it stilll is very valid one:

At my work, we have decided to stay with the ANSI characters for identifiers. Is there anybody out there using unicode identifiers and what are the experiences?

For all projects I work on (in various Languages like  English, German, Dutch or other), I stick to ASCII characters (not even ANSI) for:

  • file names
  • identifiers

I also try to abstract the non-ASCII strings into places where I am sure that the encoding is preserved (for text files, I prefer UTF-8), or where these characters are properly escaped.

What is your take on this?

–jeroen

via: uniqueidentifier – What are the experiences with using unicode in identifiers – Stack Overflow.

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