Submissions by MikeTaylor

Still hatin' on git: now with added Actual Reasons

Git is a Harrier Jump Jet. And not in a good way

Getting to grips with The Silmarillion: what it isn't and what it is

Writing correct code, part 3: preconditions and postconditions

Writing correct code, part 2: bound functions

Writing correct code, part 1: whatever happened to invariants?

Testing is not a substitute for thinking

Are you one of the 10% of programmers who can write a binary search?

Is Lisp just too hard?

Frameworks are bundles of abstractions, and abstractions leak. Rails included.

Sometimes a big switch statement may be better than polymorphism

32 years on, K&R's "The C Programming Language" still stands alone

The collapse of complex computer programs

Early experiments with JRuby -- it's so much more expressive than vanilla Ruby

Simplicity in programming, redux: depth-first and breadth-first minds

Refactoring wars and how to avoid them: what is "simplicity" in programming?