Refactoring is great right? I mean, it is something we do all the time. If you do TDD, you do it all the time, its part of the process. But is it such a good thing? What do we tend to do when we refactor and why in the world

A common complaint about C++ is that there are no lambdas (this will be fixed in C++0x), and most claim this makes STL algorithms like for_each, transform, accumulate almost useless because you have to create functions or functors somewhere else. Not having lambdas is a GOOD thing. Although

Is there something wrong with our field when prostitution is more enjoyable than programming? Or is prostitution that enjoyable?

Basic blurbs about my ideas on software and the greater world.