As I said in my last post, many of the language communities that I interact with now are fond of asserting that their particular community does a wonderful job of testing, documentation, or both. This time, I’d like to examine the claims on documentation. Once upon a time, all of the documentation for a language… Read More »
In the last few posts, beginning with The Myth of Code Anyone Can Read, I’ve focused on what you can expect from your programmers in general. Of course, generalizing is what got us into this discussion in the first place, so let’s spend a little time not generalizing. When teaching new programmers, I always tell… Read More »
In LCDC: Fundamental Knowledge, I explained how hard it is to specify a minimum level of knowledge or experience for all programmers. This minimum level would be needed to determine what is allowable for Lowest Common Denominator Code (LCDC). Anyone who has been programming for any time is probably shouting at the screen, calling me… Read More »
Many years ago, I was working on application software that we configured and shipped to nearly a hundred clients. Although we did the first installation on a machine that we provided, the customer had to install updates a few times a year. (This was before most people knew about the Internet.) A few of us… Read More »