Programming Simplicity - Takeaways
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Programming Simplicity - Takeaways

About the Book

About the Author

Paul Tarvydas
Paul Tarvydas

 40+ years experience as Software Consultant, Generalist

- former: TS Controls, Visual Frameworks Inc., Design Recovery Inc., VP of Digital Imaging Association

- hobbies included: slot cars, photography, audio electronics and guitar stomp boxes, song writing, guitar playing, golf, wine making, astronomy, motor-winding, CPU wire-wrapping, and touched on: silk screening, chemistry

- education: EE (BASc, PEng)

- other: Physics

- related: compilers, interpreters, language design, embedded systems, diagrammatic programming, Lisp, C

About the Contributors

Boken Lin
Boken Lin
Ken Deaton
Ken Deaton
Ken Kan
Ken Kan
Rajiv Abraham
Rajiv Abraham

Table of Contents

    • Takeaways
    • General Takeaways
    • Music Lessons
      • Main Takeaway
      • Music Notation
    • Whiteboards
      • Main Takeaway
      • Tell
      • Layered Details
      • Engineers Don’t Write Code
    • What Does “Reasoning About a Problem” Mean?
      • Anti-Takeaway
      • What Does “Reasoning About a Problem” Mean?
    • Construction Industry
      • Main Takeaway
      • Discussion
      • Software Development Roles
    • Takeaways from LEGO® Blocks
      • Main Takeaways
      • API - Single, Simple Type
    • Astronomy and Cosmology
      • Main Takeaway
      • Epicycles
      • Code Bloat
      • Examples
      • See Also
    • ORG Charts
      • Main Takeaways
      • Trees
      • Breaking the Tree Structure
      • Scalability
      • Optimizations
    • Business
      • Main Takeaway
      • Business Organization - Departments
      • Need To Know
      • Going Over The Boss’ Head
    • Programming Takeaways
    • Hierarchy
      • Main Takeaway
      • Relative Organization of Code
      • Diagrams
    • Mars Pathfinder Disaster
      • Anti-Takeaway
      • Mars Pathfinder Disaster
      • Priority Inversion
      • See Also
    • Multitasking
      • Anti-Takeaways
      • Mid-1900’s
      • How To Avoid Time-Sharing
      • How To Avoid Memory-Sharing
      • Isolation
      • Referential Transparency
    • S/SL
      • Main Takeaways
      • S/SL
      • Support Functions - Mechanisms
      • Dataless Language
      • Typeless Language
      • Inputs
      • Outputs
      • Errors
      • Restricted API To/From Mechanism Functions
      • Datalessness In Other PLs
      • Typelessness in Other PLs
      • Input in Other PLs
      • Output in Other PLs
      • Error in Other PLs
      • Encouraging Behavior vs Enabling Behavior
      • The Hidden Gem
    • UNIX®
      • Main Takeaways
      • Anti-Takeaways
      • Isolation
      • Coordination Language
      • PID
      • Concurrency
      • Continuations
      • Dependency Spaghetti
      • Rendezvous
      • Syntax for Distributed Programming is Minimal
      • Conflation of Programming Languages and O/Ss
      • Union of Coordination and String Processing and …
      • Pipes
      • Time-Sharing and Memory-Sharing
      • See Also
    • UNIX® 2
      • Takeaway - Restricted Interface
      • Restricted Interfaces
      • Low-Level Types
      • Type Pipelines
      • FBP
      • Edge-Cases
    • Agile
      • Main Takeaway
      • Anti-Takeway
      • Goal of Agile
      • Religion of Agile
      • Sprints Are Too Long
    • APIs
      • Main Takeaway
      • Input APIs
      • Output APIs
      • DLLs
      • Imports
      • Normalized Interfaces, APIs
      • Components
    • Compiler Technology (1)
      • Takeaway - Parsing
      • Parsing
      • REGEX
      • Flexibility
      • PEG (Ohm-JS)
      • Command Line Tool (to augment GREP)
      • PREP
      • Parsing Combinators
      • State Machines or Recursive Descent
      • See Also
    • Compiler Technology (2)
      • Takeaway - Portability
      • Portability
      • Making a Program Portable
      • Portability is a Subset of Optimization
      • Projectional Editing
      • See Also
    • Compiler Technology (3)
      • Takeaway - Optimization
      • Design and Optimization Don’t Mix
      • Optimizing a Program Automatically
      • Transpiling - Using Existing Languages as Assembly Code
      • Failure Drive Design
      • See Also
    • Denotational Semantics
      • Main Takeaways
      • Anti-Takeaways
      • Denotational Semantics
      • Control Flow
      • Making Everything Explicit
      • Gotchas
      • See Also
    • Functional Programming - Explicitness
      • Takeaway - Explicitness
    • Functional Programming - First Class Functions
      • Takeaway - First Class Functions
      • GOTO
      • Utility
      • Anonymous Functions
      • Lambdas
      • C’s First-Class Functions
      • First-Class Functions in Assembler
      • Function Syntax 1D vs. 2D
    • Functional Programming - Immutability
      • Takeaway - Immutability
    • Functional Programming - Pattern Matching
      • Takeaway - Pattern Matching
      • Pattern Matching
      • Text Manipulation
    • General Purpose Languages
      • Anti-Takeaways
    • Java
      • Main Takeaways
      • Anti-Takeaways from Java
      • Garbage Collection
      • Backtrace
    • Javascript
      • Main Takeaways
      • Anti-Takeaways from Javascript
      • Prototypes
      • Counting Parameters
      • HTML + JavaScript - GUI Programming
      • See Also
    • Lisp
      • Main Takeaways
      • Machine Readability vs. Human Readability
      • Lack of Syntax
      • Expression Language
      • Programs That Write Programs
    • Object Oriented
      • Main Takeaway
      • Case on Type
      • See Also
    • Pattern Matching
      • Main Takeaway
      • Exhaustive Search
      • See Also
    • Refactoring - Architecture
      • Main Takeaway
      • Anti-Takeaway
      • Refactoring
      • One Line Of Code
      • Refactoring is a Tell
      • Locality
    • Refactoring - DI
      • Main Takeaway
      • Refactoring DI - Design Intent
      • Tipping Point
    • Relational Programming
      • Main Takeaways
      • Anti-Takeaways from Relational Programming
      • Triples
      • Exhaustive Search
      • Separation of Concerns
      • Barliman
      • See Also
    • Scalability
      • Main Takeaway
      • Scalability
      • Isolation
    • Structured Programming
      • Main Takeaway
      • Nesting / Scoping
      • Q: What Could Be Further Nested In Today’s PLs?
      • Package Managers
      • Docker
      • Environment Variables
      • Environments
      • The Takeaway
    • Tricky Uses of Paradigms - Tricky Code
      • Anti-Takeaways from Tricky Uses of Paradigms
      • Loops vs. Recursion
      • Continuations
      • Thread Libraries
      • Layers
    • Waterfall Design
      • Main Takeaway
      • Anti-Takeaways from Waterfall Design
      • Happy Path
      • Other Paths
      • Second Class Paths
      • Waterfall Thinking
      • StateCharts
      • Functions
      • Send ()
      • Drakon
      • Concurrency
      • Tell: Backtraces
      • Tell: Poor Error Messages
      • FP - Functional Programming
      • FP Encourages Waterfall Design
    • Writing Less Code
      • Main Takeaway
      • Anti-Takeaways from Writing Less Code
      • More Time for Thinking
      • Flexibility
      • Write-only Code
    • References
    • References

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