
Tech Talk: Jimmy Koppel on Advanced Software Design
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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The Problem of Assumptions Leaking
So you look for assumptions, and then some of them will be not important to the intention the software. Those are the designed mistakes, would you say, not silly mistakes? But those are the things that you want to to keep localized. So a more realistic e example this kind of phenomenon of an assumption leaking is one of my students works at a large public company which i won't name. Others say that i've used their software half as wellso they have a cplus plus application, and they are just trying to change the reputation of strings. And so now when you go to x, y, c, that's rein out to change ten thousand places,. because this assumption leaked to
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