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Awesome.

I remember William Cook for an illuminating paper of his from 1990:

  "Object-Oriented Programming Versus Abstract Data Types"

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/papers/OOPvsADT/CookOOPvsADT90.pdf

I really recommend reading this paper if you want to get a clearer picture of the relationship between object-oriented programming and functional programming of the Haskell/ML style. At least, it did that for me.

btw the "rude mailing list participant who will not appear on channel 9 and who shall remain nameless" = Raymond Chen?

haha ... I could tell before he even said uttered it that he would say MAX_PATH. ugh.

Out of curiosity, what problems are you having with the People hub Facebook integration? It's always worked perfectly for me as far I can tell.

4 days ago, avranju wrote

@davewill: As others have indicated I think Erik wasn't talking about being able to define inline interfaces as much as being able to create inline implementations.  Imagine a method call that requires an IFoo object and being able to define an implementation and pass an instance all in a single code block.  Here's some fantasy C#:

 

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obj.DoThat( new IFoo {   publicintdoA() { return1; }   publicintdoB() { return2; } });

This feature is in F# now, by the way.

I was hoping for a tutorial or video on the scheduling aspects of Rx because they remained a mystery for me, so thanks. Please do release the test code!

The expression problem is my touchstone for thinking about a lot of design problems, and the tradeoffs and tensions involved. OO vs. FP, Rich vs. Reach, Code vs. Data ... I find it comes up over and over again in different forms. So I think every programmer should be familiar with the basic concept, thank you for posting this!