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Nice article. I loved the hieroglyph page; I think that functional programming failed for years as an engineering discipline because of the culture of that styl
by kabdib 11y ago
Nice article. I loved the hieroglyph page; I think that functional programming failed for years as an engineering discipline because of the culture of that style of code.
My early days of OOP, I started keeping a thesaurus on my bookshelf at work. Probably went overboard on naming for a while, but reigned it in. (Every writer shudders at their first efforts. Hoo boy).
We would also hold short discussions about names for things (I don't see this in the article's list of tools: Involve other people in the names you are choosing. After all, they'll be using the code, too).
- ericssmith 11y ago"I loved the hieroglyph page; I think that functional programming failed for years as an engineering discipline because of the culture of that style of code." I don't quite follow your observation, but if you are suggesting that this function would be better with verbose, Englishy naming, I think you are mistaken. Quite the opposite, the parametrically is better illustrated with hieroglyphs. Regarding failing "for years as an engineering discipline", are you suggesting that imperative programming was "successful" because of the reliance on using naming to communicate intent in the midst of rampant state mutation and unbridled complexity?