Karsten Wagner's Blog

After reading yet another blog post which got it totally wrong, I decided to write a bit about design patterns. In my opinion, the 'GOF...

I often thought about the reasons why programming seems to be so difficult and also so different to many other professions. And to what degr...

Power seems to be a nice thing to have. But what does it really mean? Think of the president of the USA: He's considered quite powerful ...

After talking about some of the basic nomenclature I will look now into the pros & cons of static typing. But instead of going into pur...

Yes, I admit, it's an old, often reiterated discussion - but nonetheless it's still a quite frequent topic. So I decided to write a ...

Exception handling seems to be a solved problem. Just use some kind of try/case/finally constructs and we're done. Are we? Exception han...

My last article created a relativly high number of comments, which I will try to discuss in this post. The article was intended as my '...

If you read discussions about programming languages, one topic is quite common: "Why do people use an inferior language like Java/C++/w...

Again an article about the "what are monads?" topic? Aren't there enough on the net already? Maybe. But since I've read a ...