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What is, in your opinion, the most surprising, weird, strange or really "WTF" language feature you have encountered?
Please only one feature per answer.
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I have always been skeptical of rewriting working code - porting code is no exception to this. However, with the advent of TDD and automated testing it is much more reasonable to rewrite and refactor code.
Does anyone know if there is a TDD tool that can be used for porting old code? Ideally you…
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This is very basic question from programming point of view but as I am in learning phase, I thought I would better ask this question rather than having a misunderstanding or narrow knowledge about the topic.
So do excuse me if somehow I mess it up.
Question:
Let's say I have class A,B,C and D…
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Is there an accepted general term that subsumes the concepts of variables, class instances and arrays? Basically "any typed thing that needs memory". In C++, such a thing is called an object, but I'm looking for a more language-agnostic term.
§ 1.8 The C++ object model
1 The constructs in…
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A lot of the code I've been working on recently, both professionally (read: at work) and in other spheres (read: at home, for friends/family/etc, or NOT FOR WORK), has been worked on, redesigned and re-implemented several times - where possible/required. This has been in an effort to make things smaller…
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Hi there:
I might be doing a coding competition soon, I was wondering if anyone made one and what where the guidelines/ process.
I'd like to make the competition appealing to all devs, and I m trying to come up with ideas as to how.
the scenario is: There is an event running and we(of the coding…
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If you had to design a study program, with a breadth-of-programming-languages requirement, which stated that the student should be exposed to all major concepts and methodologies that can be taught through (at the minimum) 6 programming languages, which programming languages would you choose to teach…
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(Since I just posted this in another question, but my browser had to be annoying and submit it without content first, here it is again:)
I'm a fan of clean code. I like my languages to be able to express what I'm trying to do, but I like the syntax to mirror that too.
For example, I work on a lot…
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Hi folks,
I am going to develop a facebook game as topic for my thesis.
I am wondering which programming languages i should choice.
I am used to programming in .NET. But i am also comfortable in C++ and Java.
I don't want to use Flash as the graphical frontend since i don't like it.
So i guess…
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Are there any objective measures for measuring the power of programming languages? Turing-completeness is one, but it is not particularly discriminating. I also remember there being a few others measures of power which are more limited versions (like finite-state-autonoma), but is there any objective…
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I'm a fan of clean code.
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