In This October Digital Issue:

Table of Contents

COVER STORY
• A Long Look at JVM Languages
  By Eric Bruno
The JVM has become a prolific farm system for development of new languages. The performance of these languages, many of which are examined here, has been greatly improved by the addition of a new bytecode to Java.

GUEST EDITORIAL

• TDD: Is There Really Any Debate Any Longer?
  By Joe Eames
A Dr. Dobb's editorial on the universal acceptance of unit testing begged the question: Why not TDD, too? Joe Eames details eight reasons why the test-driven development methodology deserves widespread adoption.


• From the Vault: Fantom
  By Brian Frank
The Fantom language's co-creater explains how this general purpose, object-oriented language generates JavaScript, Java bytecodes, and .NET binaries.


• LETTERS
  By you
Processors, unit tests, "Wintendo syndrome," code correctness, and language productivity...readers had a lot to say this month.


• LINKS
  Snapshots of the most interesting items on drdobbs.com including ASP.NET in Visual Studio 2012 and another installment of our tutorial series on Go.

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