Joel Pobar: MSDN Magazine Articles

Joel Pobar

Joel Pobar is a former Program Manager on the CLR team at Microsoft. He now hangs out at the Gold Coast in Australia, hacking away on compilers, languages, and other fun stuff. Check out his latest .NET ramblings at callvirt.net/blog.

Roll Your Own: Create a Language Compiler for the .NET Framework
Joel Pobar presents an introduction to how compilers work and how you can write your own compiler to target the .NET Framework.
Joel Pobar - February 2008
Reflection: Dodge Common Performance Pitfalls to Craft Speedy Applications
With reflection in .NET, you can load types, understand their members, make decisions about them, and execute, all within the safety of the managed runtime. But to use this power wisely, it's important to understand the associated costs and pitfalls to keep performance impact at a minimum. This article explains how.
Joel Pobar - July 2005
Alphabet Soup: A Survey of .NET Languages And Paradigms
Here we present a rundown of the various language paradigms of CLR-based languages via short language introductions and code samples.
Joel Pobar - May 2008