Larry OBrien

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Contributing Editor and Columnist, SD Times. Editor of now-defunct magazines including Software Development, Computer Language, and AI Expert. Founding Editor of Game Developer, which still totally rocks.

Software engineering consultant, specializing in high-performance backend architectures, particularly for the travel industry.

Not a bad coder.

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63	Why was dependency injection pattern not included in the Gang of four?
31	Did the developers of Java consciously abandon RAII?
22	Why is it good to split a program into multiple classes?
8	Is it possible to automatically convert code from a low level language to a high level language?
8	Why is there such limited support for Design by Contract in most modern programming languages?

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+120	Did the developers of Java consciously abandon RAII?
+10	How to write manageable code with functional programming?
+10	Is C++ not suitable for OOP?
+5	In Functional Programming, should domain-relevant simple functions (e.g., sorts) be reified?

4 Questions

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7	How big should OSGi bundles be?
5	What are the recommended resources for learning about the Actor model of concurrent systems?
3	In Functional Programming, should domain-relevant simple functions (e.g., sorts) be reified?
1	Good article on Bayesian analysis of fault logs to diagnose errors?

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70 design-patterns × 2	26 object-oriented × 4
55 java × 4	22 class
46 language-design × 4	22 inheritance
42 c++ × 5	10 functional-programming × 5
33 c# × 2	10 algorithms × 4