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Comment on “Speed Kills” – On Being A Professional by yudi

yudi — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:29:48 +0000

Another direct quote from uncle bob “literally, the cleanness of your code is determined by ‘WTF’ per minute from the reviewers.”

Comment on Back to School! by Tony Arkles

Tony Arkles — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:46:30 +0000

I've been going through the exercises from 6.184 - Zombies drink caffeinated 6.001; in particular, the RSA example. I started doing that one a while ago in DrScheme, and figured I'd revisit it with Clojure. I'm planning on posting about it within the next few days, as soon as I get over a strange mental block that I've hit with the Extended Euclidean Algorithm. In the original exercise, the code for this was given, but it's not quite Clojure-compatible, so I'm reimplementing it...

Comment on Back to School! by yudi

yudi — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:26:10 +0000

I’m interested in learning clojure, please let me know if you would like to work a project or any nifty things.

Comment on Language-a-month: Idea by tony arkles blog » Back to School!

tony arkles blog » Back to School! — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:28:09 +0000

[...] like I mentioned before, I’m going to start my Language-a-month plan, and I think I’m going to start with [...]

Comment on Mac OS X: what’s this @ in my ls output? (Extended attributes!) by Zashkaser

Zashkaser — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:46:21 +0000

Ack, my comment didn’t come out the way I’d liked it to.

Comment on Use a “guard” to simplify your code structure by James Cooper

James Cooper — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:56:05 +0000

I’m with you on this one, Tony. Breaking out of a function as early as you can not only makes it clear what the error conditions are, it also lets you read through the meat of the code without having to trace a bunch of scattered edge cases. It makes the separation between expected and exceptional much clearer.

Comment on Language-a-month: Idea by Tony Arkles

Tony Arkles — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:27:02 +0000

Hah!

I picked 1 month because I’m going to be starting an M.Sc. program at the same time and don’t want to be too ambitious.

I totally forgot about Lua. Anything that means I write less C is good in my books

Comment on Language-a-month: Idea by Doug

Doug — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:24:18 +0000

1 month?! So long!? Come on, there are tons of books that teach you a language in 24 hours – wuss.

But seriously, I think one month might be too light. Overall a good idea though. It might be neat to implement a largish project (the same one) in each language and see how they vary.

I recommend putting Lua on your list though. It is a really good language and the nice thing is it is very usable in many places (due to it’s small size, fast interpretation and ease of embedding into C).

Comment on Language-a-month: Idea by Tony Arkles

Tony Arkles — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:44:47 +0000

Oh, I totally forgot about DVCS! I’ve used Mercurial a little tiny bit (essentially just on the flight home from PyCon).

Comment on Language-a-month: Idea by yudi

yudi — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:37:19 +0000

I believe focusing on a couple of languages (ruby and erlang has been used together to write Github.com) is a good idea. Learning a new scm (not sure if you used git or mercurial) is also a good idea (I start to hate svn since the scm server hangs).

Other than that, Lua and Smalltalk seems to be very interesting language.

I do hope you get enough time to pick up ALL/Most of those though…