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Objects are a powerful software engineering construct, and Java uses them extensively. In fact, it encourages the use of objects so much that developers sometimes forget the costs behind the construct ...

Four key concepts are essential for understanding Clojure’s functional programming paradigm. Here’s how to apply what you ...

How does one measure the performance penalty imposed by a compiler and execution environment on a program for using the data abstractions? In this article, I present the Data Abstraction Penalty (DAP) ...