user18014

111 reputation

	111 reputation	bio	website		visits	member for	2 years, 3 months
2 badges		location			seen	May 5 '11 at 17:08

7 Actions

Apr 17	comment	What's the canonical retort to “it's open source, submit a patch”? @Thorbjorn: Everyone could use a good fork now and again. Even a pity fork.
Apr 6	awarded	Supporter
Apr 4	comment	Should a method validate its parameters? Assertions that can be removed when code is put into production are a good answer--general validation (except on, perhaps, really critical platforms like a space probe or something) is usually too costly in performance to justify. Why validate parameters to a sqrt() functions I'm going to calls thousands of times a second, when I should just assert out in testing?
Apr 4	awarded	Teacher
Apr 4	comment	Structured programming versus OO programming So, the biggest motivator (as mentioned in my answer) for OOP is when you need to enforce modularity, and when it makes sense to have an "object" with internal state that is "asked" to do things. And for decency's sake, please don't teach these folks that OOP is the cure-all for their issues.
Apr 4	answered	Structured programming versus OO programming
Feb 22	comment	What do you think was a poor design choice in Java? @greyfade: C++ exceptions are hosed. Generics in Java do what templates in C++ should be used for, and do so unambiguously. I've never seen a Java generic compiler error anywhere near as epic as some things I've seen from Boost, or even the STL.