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Mathematica: Unevaluated vs Defer vs Hold vs HoldForm vs HoldAllComplete vs etc etc

macros lisp language-design wolfram-mathematica
asked 2009-10-24T00:33:58.113
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Why dont languages allow overloading of methods by return value?

language-design
asked 2009-10-20T18:55:16.507
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Why Is Dynamic Typing So Often Associated with Interpreted Languages?

language-design type-systems typing dynamic-typing static-typing
asked 2009-09-08T13:00:36.420
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What does DIM stand for in Visual Basic and BASIC?

vb6 language-design basic
asked 2009-06-23T15:57:49.320
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Why is Multiple Inheritance not allowed in Java or C#?

c# java language-design multiple-inheritance
asked 2009-06-15T09:49:13.750
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Foreach can throw an InvalidCastException?

c# foreach language-design
asked 2009-06-04T10:44:01.577
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Using variable keys to access values in JavaScript objects

javascript language-design
asked 2009-05-28T18:46:57.017
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Why is The Iteration Variable in a C# foreach statement read-only?

c# language-design
asked 2009-04-22T09:48:21.363
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of separating declaration and definition as in C++?

c++ language-design declaration definition
asked 2009-03-14T11:18:21.680
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What is the overall design philosophy of php?

php language-design language-features language-comparisons
asked 2009-03-12T20:01:01.440
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Why is adding null to a string legal?

c# language-design
asked 2009-03-12T03:58:46.290
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What is the rationale for the behavior of the 'this' keyword in JavaScript?

javascript language-design
asked 2009-02-12T13:14:30.537
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Why are many languages case sensitive?

language-design case-sensitive
asked 2009-02-02T13:30:18.917
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Why are C character literals ints instead of chars?

c++ c char sizeof language-design
asked 2009-01-11T22:43:59.723
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Why are there digraphs in C and C++?

c++ c c99 language-design digraphs
asked 2009-01-11T06:07:20.640
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Do smarter compilers, languages, and frameworks make dumber programmers?

language-design
asked 2009-01-09T15:49:32.403
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Could C++ have not obviated the pimpl idiom?

c++ language-design compiler-theory pimpl-idiom
asked 2008-11-06T15:56:44.270
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Whatever happened to the 'entry' keyword?

c language-design
asked 2008-10-31T18:04:20.490
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Most interesting non-mainstream language?

programming-languages language-design
asked 2008-10-14T10:59:06.107
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How do you force constructor signatures and static methods?

c# java oop language-features language-design
asked 2008-10-02T07:42:04.203
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Why does Java not have block-scoped variable declarations?

java syntax language-design
asked 2008-09-26T18:28:59.753
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First impressions of the Fantom programming language?

language-design fantom
asked 2008-09-25T14:02:56.180
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Why don't languages raise errors on integer overflow by default?

language-agnostic integer language-design integer-overflow
asked 2008-09-19T16:53:10.533
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Why aren't variables declared in "try" in scope in "catch" or "finally"?

c# java exception scope language-design
asked 2008-09-18T17:56:23.880
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