When writing a method, one of the first decisions is the signature of the method, that is, its name and the parameters that need to be supplied to the method. The name of a method is an important decision, but let us skip it for a while. Let us just consider the number of parameters…
From time to time I like to check on the evolution of dynamic languages, just to see what I am missing as a Java/C++ programmer. It is always an interesting travel, and each time I feel that the future will be really far away from the C-like languages that we currently use. Last week, I…
Solving problems using software is the ultimate goal of software engineers. However, few people completely realize that just writing code is not the solution for all problems we will encounter. In many cases, the solution for code organization is to write less code, instead of more. A common mistake that software developers do is to think…