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Object-Oriented Programming in Functional Programming in Swift
The maths behind functional programming predates computers. Once people had some experience with both of these things, they stripped them down and created object-oriented programming. It’s still possible to jettison a lot of the features of functional programming and work … Continue reading
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Object-Oriented Programming in Objective-C
UIKonf 1995 Keynote : Object-Oriented Programming in Objective-C Introduction Welcome to the keynote for UIKonf 1995. I’m really excited for what 1995 will bring. Customers are upgrading to last year’s OpenStep release, which means that we get to use the … Continue reading
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I agree with this, programming is not a craft by Dan North. So here’s my concern with the idea of Software Craftsmanship. It’s at risk of letting programmers’ egos run riot. And when that happens… well, the last time they … Continue reading
Did that work? Maybe.
A limitation with yesterday’s error-preserving approach is that it leaves you on your own to recover from problems. Assuming your error definitions are sufficiently granular, this should be straightforward but tedious. Find out what went wrong, recover from it, then … Continue reading
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Getting better at doing it wrong
For around a month at the end of last year, I kept a long text note called “doing doing it wrong right”. I was trying to understand error handling in programming, look at some common designs and work out a … Continue reading
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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
It’s been almost a year since my first day at Facebook, sitting in an overcrowded meeting room with my bootcamp class because 42 Earlham Street was full and it’d be another week before we moved to 10 Brock Street, with … Continue reading
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A kata above
The code kata is a method software craftspeople use to practice their craft. The idea is that you take a problem you understand, like FizzBuzz or Conway’s Life, and build an application that implements it. Then build another one. And … Continue reading
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In The Design of Design, Fred Brooks makes an interesting point about ESR’s description of the Bazaar model of Linux (and, by extension, “Open Source”) development. Linux was actually designed in a cathedral. The design was supplied by Unix, where … Continue reading
An acceptable tool It’s easy to forget that adequacy is, well, adequate. It’s easy to go all-in on making some code structure perfect, when good enough would be good enough.
Beware the IDEs
I recently had the opportunity to talk with a couple of software project managers from IBM. That company is of a kind that I have never worked at, and many of the companies I have worked at are of kinds … Continue reading
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