Month: March 2005

Review: The Inmates are Running the Asylum

I have seen Alan Cooper’s book The Inmates Are Running The Asylum recommended many places and I finally got around to read it myself. Overall I liked the book. It is not too long and Alan Cooper is a really good and entertaining writer. However, Alan Cooper spends almost half the book ranting over programmers […]

GADTs in C++

My good friends Claudio Russo and Andrew Kennedy have been kind enough to send me a draft paper about Generalized Algebraic Data Types (GADTs) and Object-Oriented Programming. GADTs generalize the datatypes of ML and Haskell by permitting constructors to produce different type-instantiations of the same datatype. One of Andrew and Claudio’s examples is a slightly […]