In programming, we are constantly told to ensure we write comments, and this is very good advice. One of the things that is often overlooked in this advice, however, is what kind of comments we shouldn’t make. Having written code for some 30+ years at this point, I have run into 3 specific situations where a comment is not a benefit, and is often simply noise and a negative to everyone involved. (read more)

As someone who has written Python for almost 25 years, spent years writing various Lisps and Smalltalk, and spent a few years in the Clojure community, it might be interesting to talk about what appeals to me with F#. Appeals enough to get me to restart my blog after an 11 year hiatus (2000-2009 being the original dates). There are a few things that appeal: Practicality while still having an opinion, which seems to be derived from its OCaml roots. (read more)