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Eric Lippert

Seattle, WA

http://ericlippert.com

Eric Lippert designs programming languages at Facebook. Other notable work includes designing C# analyzers at Coverity, and developing the Visual Basic, VBScript, JScript and C# compilers at Microsoft. He is on Twitter at @ericlippert 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?
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Why not inherit from List<T>?
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Is there a reason for C#'s reuse of the variable in a foreach?
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How are pseudorandom and truly random numbers different and why does it matter?
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1136
Try-catch speeding up my code?
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What is the difference between asynchronous programming and multithreading?
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Monad in plain English? (For the OOP programmer with no FP background)
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683
How can I ensure that a division of integers is always rounded up?
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610
Why do dynamic languages make it more difficult to maintain large codebases?
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Why hasn't functional programming taken over yet?
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519
What is the difference between i++ and ++i in C#?
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513
Why use a public method in an internal class?
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Why can't I use the 'await' operator within the body of a lock statement?
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All possible array initialization syntaxes
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Why is Math.random() not designed to be cryptographically secure?
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448
What is the purpose of a stack? Why do we need it?
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435
Curious null-coalescing operator custom implicit conversion behaviour
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434
If strings are immutable in .NET, then why does Substring take O(n) time?
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418
What's the difference between Task.Start/Wait and Async/Await?
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409
How do I create my own programming language and a compiler for it
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408
Why is JavaScript not compiled to bytecode before sending over the network?
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339
Worst security hole you've seen?
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312
What do you do when code review is just too hard?
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306
What do these new C# 6 features do?
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298
Why Would I Ever Need to Use C# Nested Classes
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285
Difference between Covariance & Contra-variance
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281
Constructor of an abstract class in C#
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277
Why can't C# interfaces contain fields?
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276
Why are C# 4 optional parameters defined on interface not enforced on implementing class?
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264
How does having a dynamic variable affect performance?
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