Smaller Try-Blocks Are Better

It often happens, especially in Java, that a few places in the method are potential exception originators. Usually, we make…

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Declarative and Immutable Pipeline of Transformations

A few months ago I made a small Java library, which is worth explaining since the design of its classes…

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Command Line Default Options in Linearized Plain Text

A few years ago I created xcop, a simple command line tool that can check the style of an XML…

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Reflection Means Hidden Coupling

Reflective programming (or reflection) happens when your code changes itself on the fly. For example, a method of a class,…

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Objectionary: Dictionary and Factory for EO Objects

Since the time of Kernighan and Ritchie we share binary code in libraries. You need to print some text with…

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Logging in Unit Tests, a Bad Practice

Logging is an inevitable part of debugging. Well, at least in modern high-level programming languages and architectures. It wasn’t thirty…

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Prestructors

Making constructors pre-process the arguments before encapsulating them seems to be bad practice. However, very often it’s necessary to do…

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Dataization

There are three things in EOLANG (and the 𝜑-calculus which we based it on): data, atoms, and objects. There is…

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Strong Typing without Types

In 1974, Liskov and Zilles defined a strongly-typed language as one in which “whenever an object is passed from a…

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