Week 19 (9)
March 6, 2014

I just finished reading Reconciling Exhaustive Pattern Matching with Objects, by Chinawat Isradisaikul and Andrew C. Myers, and this is my response.

First off, I don't feel that this blog is the best arena for a response to this paper.  The paper is written at a high level and this blog is much more down to earth and informal.

Second, I lack enough knowledge to intelligently comment on the paper.  My impression, reading the beginning thoroughly and the rest sparingly, is that my knowledge of computer programming, object oriented computer programming in particular, has a large hole in it.  I have felt this way since I started learning Java without the concept of object orienting programming being taught first.  One of these days, perhaps it will 'click' and I'll grasp all these ideas I've been struggling to understand.

For now, I'll leave the meaningful commentary on this paper to anyone who understood it.