I happened upon this article, about the double-casting anti-pattern in C#, and I couldn’t help but notice the little pot-shots taken at C++ (and Delphi), to the point that people who exhibit use of this anti-pattern probably came from those weakly-typed languages.
Sorry I haven’t written in a few score. The general news is that I’ve moved out to Sammamish, Washington, got a new car (Mazda6 i Sports Value Edition), got a new apartment at a community called Boulder creek, and start my job this coming Monday. Any interested peoples can check out any pictures I’ve taken thus far at http://noahsmark.com/pictures, which gets updated rather frequently. I have the internets now (all of them), so you can find me on AIM (well, pidgin) with the screenname silentdakeyras.
Speaking of “pidgin”, go look it up. After I downloaded v2.0 of pidgin (formerly gaim), I thought it was just a cute misspelling. A few hours later, I read it in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Fifth Book of Peace, and figured that, barring any kind of Truman Show style conspiracy, it was a real word. Seriously, go look it up. Good stuff.
