Oracle sues Google over Android and Java | CNET News. Wow. Sun may have open-sourced Java in the past, but at this moment, the JVM seems like a more hostile platform than .Net.
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Island/Lake recursion
The Island and Lake Combination. For those who are curious which is the largest (island in a lake on an)^2 on an island. Because recursion isn’t just for programmers and computers.
Go: Defer, Panic, and Recover
It seems after much resistance to the idea, Go has added exception handling to the language in the form of defer, panic, and recover. The Go Programming Language Blog: Defer, Panic, and Recover. Don’t get me wrong, I think the’ve got something here. Defer gives you the equivalent of C#’s finally/using; or a nice subset …