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Writing, Technically with James Somers

Signals and Threads

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Is TDD a Culture of Documentation?

In a language like Ruby, people are more incentivized to write documentation in the same way that in dynamically typed languages. But I think it's too simple to say that one kind of language encourages one kind of culture of documentation because we have a culture around testing for reasons that are kind of orthogonal to the language. And so individual things like functions are clearer. Your data structures are easier to understand.

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