·The XML Data Model Is Broken

·Attributes Are Useless

·Mixed Content Is No Big Deal

·Regular Expression Types

·Types vs. Fields

·Conclusion

·Stuff That Didn’t Fit Anywhere Else

·Bad Pro-XML Arguments

·Pro-XML Arguments

·"Debunked" Anti-XML Arguments

·Other Arguments

·Then why is it so popular?

·Programming Languages

·Data Representation

·Tricks

·Evaluation of the Microsoft CLR

·What is the CLR?

·"What’s your problem?"

·Good: Competition

·Good: Virtual Method Annotations

·Good: Value Types

·Bad: Value Types

·Good: Runtime Generic Instantation

·Bad: Covariant Arrays

·Good: Assemblies

·Good: Application Domains

·Bad: out parameters

·Good: "unsafe" code

·Bad: Redundancy

·Good: Nullable value types

·Bad: Nullable by default

·Good: Function Pointers (and Anonymous Functions)

·Bad: Function Pointer Hacks

·Bad: The CLR is not language agnostic

·"You made a mistake"

·C Preprocessor Abuse

·Binary Literals

·Macro-based "foreach"

·Variable-Length Parameter List

·What is type inference?

·The advantages of type inference

·Why it’s stupid that many languages don’t support it already

·Type inference can get complicated, but it doesn’t have to

·Inference based on variable assignment

·Inference based on variable use

·Just give me the simple stuff

·Everything Can Be Object

·Java’s Solution

·C# Value Types

·Why Value Types?

·Why Not Value Types?

·Generic Tuple Computation

·zip in Haskell

·zip in a "normal" language

·Language support

·Type expansion

·Tuple value computation

·Generic zip

·unzip

·Generic unzip

·Miscellaneous details

·When the "@" isn’t powerful enough

·Type constraints

·Implementation

·Tuples

·Function Parameters and Return Values

·FAQ

·The difference between tuples and lists

·Singleton tuples

·Empty tuples

·Event Multicast

·The worst possible way

·The generic way

·The tuple way

·Inlining Tuples

·Inlining specifics

·Other uses