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Eric Lippert
Designer of fine programming languages
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Eric Lippert designs programming languages; prior work includes architecting the Hack and Bean Machine compilers at Meta, designing C# analyzers at Coverity, and developing the Visual Basic, VBScript, JScript and C# compilers at Microsoft. He is on Mastodon at @[email protected] and writes a blog about programming language design and other fabulous adventures in coding at http://ericlippert.com.

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Can a local variable's memory be accessed outside its scope?
Jun 22, 2011
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Why not inherit from List<T>?
Feb 11, 2014
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Is there a reason for C#'s reuse of the variable in a foreach?
Jan 17, 2012
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Try-catch speeding up my code?
Jan 20, 2012
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What is the difference between asynchronous programming and multithreading?
Jan 8, 2016
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Monad in plain English? (For the OOP programmer with no FP background)
Apr 24, 2010
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How can I ensure that a division of integers is always rounded up?
May 29, 2009
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What is the difference between i++ and ++i in C#?
Jul 27, 2010
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Why hasn't functional programming taken over yet?
May 14, 2010
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Why use a public method in an internal class?
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Is asking "why" on language specifications still considered as "primarily opinion-based" if it can have official answers?
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How are pseudorandom and truly random numbers different and why does it matter?
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Why is JavaScript not compiled to bytecode before sending over the network?
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What do you do when code review is just too hard?
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