Programming Simplicity - Broad Brush
Programming Simplicity - Broad Brush
About the Book
About the Author
About the Contributors
Table of Contents
- Programming Is Not Coding
- An Abbreviated History of Programming Languages.
- What is the point of programming?
- Early Machines
- High Level Electronic Machines
- Early Programming of Computers
- Tools
- IDEs
- Process
- Drawbacks
- Toggle Switches (Advanced Programming)
- Breadboards (Advanced Programming)
- Miniaturization (Super Advanced Programming)
- Drawback - Dust
- Drawback - $$$
- HCI - Human Computer Interfaces - Keyboards and Displays
- Solution - Keyboards
- Solution - Displays
- Assembler (Ultra Advanced Programming)
- Separation of operators and operands
- Line-Oriented Source Code
- Aside - Tree-Oriented Source Code
- High Level Languages (Super Ultra Advanced Programming)
- ASCII
- Code Bloat
- Types Needed During Design
- Other Syntaxes
- Spreadsheets
- Relational Programming
- Everything is a String
- Scripting
- Hypercard
- Dataless Programming Languages
- Concept: Orthogonal Programming Languages
- WASM
- VPLs
- Low-Code
- HTML
- XML
- Declarative Programming
- TXL
- AI generates Code
- ROS, Behavior Trees
- 1950s Text-based Programming Languages
- Smalltalk
- Compilers
- Compilers vs. Interpreters
- Interpreter
- Compiler
- How Do You Write Code That Figures Out What Can Be Pre-Compiled?
- Compilers Are Interpreters
- Tokens, Tokenization
- Trees
- AST vs CST
- Tree Driven Compilation
- Do One Thing Well
- Syntax Driven Compilation
- Compiler Phases
- REGEX - Regular Expressions
- YACC, LEX, Bison, etc.
- PEG
- Ohm
- Call Return Spaghetti
- Introduction
- Simple System
- What Happens?
- Current State of the Art
- The Desired Outcome
- Scalability
- Insidious Form of Dependency
- New Reality vs. Old Reality
- Measuring Isolation
- 5 Whys of Software Components
- Acknowledgement
- Git Could Do More
- Github, Git, Diff, etc.
- Automated DRY
- Git-based Editors
- DRY vs. Component-Based Programming
- Factbases
- The Universal Datatype
- Triples
- Assembler
- Normalization
- Factbase
- Compilers
- Optimization
- Anecdote - Y2K and COBOL
- Pattern Matching Factbases
- Programming Language Design
- Automation
- Programming
- Triples
- XML
- Computer Science
- Data Structures
- Curried Functions
- PROLOG
- Human Readability
- Agile TakeAways
- Goal of Agile
- Religion of Agile
- Takeaways from Agile
- Anti-Takeways from Agile
- Flexibility
- Reuse In The Large
- Code is cheap.
- Software Development Roles
- Compilers Are Too Slow
- Efficiency
- Sector Lisp, FP in < 512 Bytes
- Forgotten
- Notation Worship
- Error Checking - Silly Mistakes
- 5-Line Programs
- Why Don’t We Use Diagrams For Programming?
- Dependencies
- Simplicity - How Do You Build A Light Airplane?
- Suggestion: Type Checking Design Rules
- Warping Programming Languages To Allow Compilation
- Appendix References
- Why Do We Use Text For Programming Languages?
- FDD - Failure Driven Design
- Slides
- Appendix
- PROLOG for Programmers Introduction (in PROLOG)
- video
- Slides
- Transcript
- The Holy Grail of Software Development
- Video
- Transcript
- Control Flow
- Video
- Slides
- Transcript
- Programming Is Not Coding
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