[squeak-dev] Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of Many Programmers

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Wed Apr 12 11:41:09 UTC 2017


On 4/9/17, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Nicolas Cellier <
> nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey, even if that should be pretty obvious things for an average
>> Smalltalk
>> programmer, a booster injection can't hurt.

As the video is over 40 minuts (I have not watched it)

Does this more or less capture the content of the video?

http://notes.webutvikling.org/7-ineffective-coding-habits/

1. We clutter our code (with comments)
2. We write off the line
3. Parameters are placed all over the place
4. We don’t abstract enough.
5. We make complex methods with many parameters
6. We do lousy encapsulation
7. Testing should be a reflection of your functions


>> Though my colleague prefers the rigor of Haskell and Elm, maybe I've got
>> a
>> small influence after all :) - unless it's only to please me...
>
>
> Interesting to watch. Thx Nicolas.
> I'm thinking Smalltalk must perform pretty well in the "name cloud"
> challenge.
> cheers -ben
>


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