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Subject Oriented Programming (SOP) vs. Object Oriented Programming (OOP)

Posted on March 22, 2010 by slacy

When I’m programming, I usually anthroporporphize the code and the actors involved, and that means when I’m thinking about program flow, I think of it as if they’re real actors doing the tasks needed, and then I convert that back … Continue reading →

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If you program, you should watch this.

Posted on January 7, 2010 by slacy

The video linked below sort of blew my mind. The integration and instant feedback between test & code The notion of “spec” (not “unittest”) The spliraling nature of the way he writes the code. Here’s the blog post with the … Continue reading →

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Can we all agree that “Programming Language” := “Turing Complete”

Posted on August 11, 2009 by slacy

I’m tired of articles like this one that say things like XML essentially is a programming language that allows users to customize the underlying format of their word-processing documents It peeves me a lot when people refer to things like … Continue reading →

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Perl in place replacement syntax

Posted on May 13, 2009 by slacy

I always forget how to do this, so I’m writing it down: perl -pi -e “s/foo/bar/g” Is there a way to do this in Python and be as concise? That would be really nice, and would eliminate one more place … Continue reading →

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