Monthly Archives: December 2010

Type systems and their advantages

Posted on December 2, 2010 by

Typing is not the bottleneck.  Neither is typing. If you’ve been a programmer sometime in the last fourteen billion years you’ve noticed that there’s this conversation about type systems, specifically about comparing static type systems to dynamic type systems. Dynamic … Continue reading →

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Easy ways to maximize the value of TDD

Posted on December 2, 2010 by

Before we’ve made it pass the first time, a failing test tells us what code to write. When it fails later, it can tell us what we broke.  Failing tests alert us to regressions before we integrate. A test is … Continue reading →

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