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Respecting Abstraction

In a recent post, Scott Koon proposes that to be a really good .NET programmer, you also need to be a really good C++ programmer: If you’ve spent all your life working in a GC’ed language, why would you ever need to know how memory management works, let

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Why Objects Suck

There's been a lot of discussion recently about the Object to Relational mapping problem, which is a serious one. This Clemens Vasters blog entry summarizes it best: Maybe I am too much of a data (read: XML, Messages, SQL) guy by now, but I just lost faith that

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