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Sometimes you learn the best from others; by watching. This post is based on such an instance. A fellow engineer on my team was investigating a nagging issue - partially-successful operations or …

In the early years, software applications were tiny, compared to what we build today. In any given application, one could say, there were only a handful of error scenarios to deal with. Besides, error …

Enough! JavaScript had us in its grip for long with its foot guns. The first time I heard the term Hoisting, I had no idea about it and misheard as hosting. You declare variables using var happily, …

Immutability, the cornerstone of functional programming, has many facets. Not every (mainstream) language supports all the facets; at least not per what each facet stands for. That’s what I will …

A great deal of thought goes into language design. Eric Lippert’s posts is a living testament, at least for C#. Syntax and idioms are also part of the language design. When designing a language, the …