Monthly Archives: May 2015

Dynamic Method Dispatch in Object-Oriented Programming in Functional Programming in Swift

In the previous episode, I said that objects are functions that map their ivars onto methods. However, the objects that I demonstrated in the post were tables, structures of functions that closed over the ivars, like this: struct List<T> { … Continue reading

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Object-Oriented Programming in Functional Programming in Swift

The maths behind functional programming predates computers. Once people had some experience with both of these things, they stripped them down and created object-oriented programming. It’s still possible to jettison a lot of the features of functional programming and work … Continue reading

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Object-Oriented Programming in Objective-C

UIKonf 1995 Keynote : Object-Oriented Programming in Objective-C Introduction Welcome to the keynote for UIKonf 1995. I’m really excited for what 1995 will bring. Customers are upgrading to last year’s OpenStep release, which means that we get to use the … Continue reading

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I agree with this, programming is not a craft by Dan North. So here’s my concern with the idea of Software Craftsmanship. It’s at risk of letting programmers’ egos run riot. And when that happens… well, the last time they … Continue reading

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Did that work? Maybe.

A limitation with yesterday’s error-preserving approach is that it leaves you on your own to recover from problems. Assuming your error definitions are sufficiently granular, this should be straightforward but tedious. Find out what went wrong, recover from it, then … Continue reading

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Getting better at doing it wrong

For around a month at the end of last year, I kept a long text note called “doing doing it wrong right”. I was trying to understand error handling in programming, look at some common designs and work out a … Continue reading

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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

It’s been almost a year since my first day at Facebook, sitting in an overcrowded meeting room with my bootcamp class because 42 Earlham Street was full and it’d be another week before we moved to 10 Brock Street, with … Continue reading

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