Mike Swaim gave a presentation today entitled No Silver Bullet, an allusion to Fred Brook’s classic essay by the same title. You can download the slides here. Mike discusses the pros and cons of the following software development techniques: High level languages Object oriented programming Declarative languages Functional programming Data oriented design Metaprogramming Static typing Duck typing Garbage collection Allocating on the stack Tail calls Resource acquisition is [...]

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