Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category
Brevity As a Virtue
I remember that when I was in school learning C++ (as the default language they taught at the time) I had a strong aversion to Java. I even got into a debate or two about C’s virtues when compared to Java’s. This is funny to me now because I’ve been doing professional Java programming for [...]
Funny Quote
Very funny quote on object-oriented design…
Imagine if the Perl cafe and Javahut were across the street from each other.
You walk into Javahut, and ask to sit down. “I’m sorry,” says the person at the door. I’m not actually the hostess, I’m a Factory class that can give you a hostess if you tell me what [...]
Details, Details, Details
Note to proprietary software developers: if you throw an exception put some details in there about the values of the variables involved with the exception. Telling me something doesn’t compare but not telling me what was being compared is not much use. Reason number 433 that I like open source software… I could just put [...]
OML: A Blast from the Past
Wow, Catalogablog just ran a story on OML (the OCLC Macro Language). Since Stanford/Lane is an RLIN school/library (and doesn’t use OCLC) I had no idea this was still around — I think I just took OML off my resume recently (figuring it was a dead language). I can remember about five and a half [...]