HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

le-manchester

3 karma · joined April 2, 2012

submissionscomments
le-manchester··on Thoughts on being a programmer
Not at all because programming languages like Ruby parameter names don't tell the full story:

if you have def find(name) what kind of type could be name? String "Steve"?? Symbol :Steve? Hash {:first => "Steve", :last => "Jobs"} ??

le-manchester··on Thoughts on being a programmer
>Don't become the old people you hate, always try to learn new things, no matter how alien. So following that: There's a good talk about Code Documentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCw7CpRvYOE