Sadek Drobi’s Blog

Programming languages that offer more power and flexibility have been lately gaining momentum. Johnatan Tang highlights, however, the flexibility vs. productivity tradeoff in terms of program structure. Whereas multi-dispatch languages provide more flexibility in arranging code, traditional object orientation makes organizing programs easier.

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Yet another clueless manager

Nov 17, 2008 9:33 AM by Ilya Sterin

First, methodologies are only as good as the people that apply them. I hate the thought of process over people. Intelligent people will find a way to produce good software, agile or not. Morons will fail even with the process. Software development is more art than it is science, though I wish the people that never made it as software developers would stop trying to pile process on top of process and think that engineers are code monkeys that can develop good software by following some process. Process is good, but smart people are better.
Also, it’s not that agile is failing, software projects are failing and have been failing before agile and will be failing after. Again, this is art and creativity is required not process.

Thanks Ilya for the comment!

Having worked with several Object-Relational mapping frameworks in the last few years, I got to a point where I couldn’t justify their complexity in my project. We often talk about the mismatch between the database and the object worlds, and that is where ORMs are often stated and referenced for “bridging the gap”!

Well I prefer to call it lifting the gap, or highering the gap, to have it now between DAOs and the rest of the code than having it between database and code.But I wouldn’t call this in any way reducing the gap.

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In my trip through Haskell programming I keep discovering how clean and enjoyable the language is. By the end I am someone that loves doing abstractions and I guess I’ve found my world.

I discussed with some colleagues lately how a programming language creates a whole culture around it. This culture inherits from language properties and shapes the language programming style.

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