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Eric Lippert
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Eric Lippert designs programming languages; prior work includes architecting the Hack and Bean Machine compilers at Meta, designing C# analyzers at Coverity, and developing the Visual Basic, VBScript, JScript and C# compilers at Microsoft. He is on Mastodon at @[email protected] and writes a blog about programming language design and other fabulous adventures in coding at http://ericlippert.com.

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Why do dynamic languages make it more difficult to maintain large codebases?
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Why is JavaScript not compiled to bytecode before sending over the network?
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How do I create my own programming language and a compiler for it
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Should I add redundant code now just in case it may be needed in the future?
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How has an increase in the complexity of systems affected successive generations of programmers?
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On developing deep programming knowledge
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Why are interfaces useful?
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Zero behavior objects in OOP - my design dilemma
Apr 2, 2014
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Are single-character constants better than literals?
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