
Episode 465: Kevlin Henney and Trisha Gee on 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
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The Committable Piece of Work?
Programming is a skill. You can break this one down by learning to do it. Often when we approach things, we have one big idea in our head andi it becomes an act of almost performance. I must do it all at once. It's all in my and it must now. So here at the bottom line is, does it actually compile? That really has tobe the simplest thing. And then moving up through various versions of it works. The other thing is, there's an older term for it: stable intermediate forms. When you walk and you always have contact with the ground, therefore you are safe from running into anything that isn't stable. If you run something
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