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Code With No Name (Part 2): Closures

Last time, we talked about how anonymous functions could be created in most any language that supports first-class functions.  In brief, we discussed how a function definition can be used as an expression in these languages, stored in a local variable, or passed back as a return value from another function.  The one key piece [...]

Ideas Worth Stealing

It’s widely believed that there’s such a thing as a “trade secret” in software development: some algorithm or data structure that makes your product better than all the others in your industry, and that you shouldn’t reveal it to your competition or else they’ll steal it and out-compete you.  Our industry is rife with NDAs, [...]