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2023

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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (My Notes and Highlights)

Link: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (My Notes and Highlights): "I recently re-read Martin Fowler's excellent book on refactoring. It's about improving the design and quality of your code in small steps, without changing external behavior. The book contains detailed descriptions of refactorings, with motivation, mechanics, and an example for each. A must-read."

This book is a classic, and recently they came out with an update using Javascript instead of Java. Here's one person's commentary on that book.

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Lessons From Debugging

Link: Lessons From Debugging: "By June 1949, people had begun to realize that it was not so easy to get a program right as had at one time appeared. It was on one of my journeys between the EDSAC room and the punching equipment that the realization came over me with full force that a good part of the remainder of my life was going to be spent in finding errors in my own programs. — Maurice Wilkes, creator of the first stored-program computer, EDSAC Debugging is programming, and programming is often mostly debugging. One of t"

There are ancient traditions around debugging from long long time ago!

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