I've started working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope that covers Ruby 3.x. I'm working on this in my spare time, so it will take a while. Leave a comment or drop me a line and I'll email you when it's finished. Here’s an excerpt…
I've started working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope that covers Ruby 3.x. I'm working on this in my spare time, so it will take a while. Leave a comment or drop me a line and I'll email you when it's finished. The content of Ch…
I've started working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope that covers Ruby 3.x. I'm working on this in my spare time, so it will take a while. Leave a comment or drop me a line and I'll email you when it's finished. This week's excer…
I've started working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope that covers Ruby 3.x. I'm working on this in my spare time, so it will take a while. Leave a comment or drop me a line and I'll email you when it's finished. Update: I’ve made…
I've started working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope that covers Ruby 3.x. I'm working on this in my spare time, so it will take a while. Leave a comment or drop me a line and I'll email you when it's finished. Ruby’s garbage co…
I've started working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope that covers Ruby 3.x. I'm working on this in my spare time, so it will take a while. Leave a comment or drop me a line and I'll email you when it's finished. The Ruby team has…
I've started working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope that covers Ruby 3.x. I'm working on this in my spare time, so it will take a while. Leave a comment or drop me a line and I'll email you when it's finished. RUM includes a se…
I've started working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope that covers Ruby 3.x. I'm working on this in my spare time, so it will take a while to finish. Leave a comment or drop me a line and I'll email you when it's finished. In the
I empathize for people who have to learn English as a foreign language. English grammar is inconsistent, arbitrary and hard to master. English spelling is even worse. I sometimes find myself apologizing for my language’s shortcomings. But l…
In my last post, I explored how Crystal parsed a simple program and produced a data structure called an abstract syntax tree (AST). But what does Crystal do with the AST? Why bother going to such lengths to create it? After Crystal parses m…
We use compilers every day to parse our code, find our programming mistakes and then help us fix them. But how do compilers read and understand our code? What does our code look like to them? We tend to read code like we would read a human
Wikipedia defines “Language Primitive” this way: By looking at a language’s primitives, we can learn what kind of code will be easy to write or impossible to express, and what types of problems the language was intended to solve. Whether yo…