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Functional agile: how does it work?

Posted by on Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 12:27 am. 3 Comments.

So I was thinking in the shower about how agile technical practices and functional programming both aim for something like “good” code, but then it occurs to me that — no surprise — “good” doesn’t tell me much. I want to listen to what each “side” is excited about — not for “niceness” or for [...]

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Is ‎Object Oriented the best?

Posted by on Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 11:10 am. 13 Comments.

I’ve been hearing sincere complaints lately about object oriented programming, about the Craftsmanship Movement, about Agile development practices. I hear from folks who are excited about functional (denotative) programming, who write concise little functions with one character names. (Some have objections to TDD, or think pairing is costly, but those are on the edge of [...]

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Can there be Agile functional or denotative programming?

Posted by on Monday, January 3, 2011 at 1:06 pm. 7 Comments.

Somebody tweeted that they don’t like OO, and it made sense to me, because a few people I’m close to feel the same. Something’s bugged me about the anti-OO idea, though, and I just realized what. Agile programming to me seems like a big, creative party. Like a barn raising, maybe. If OO were thrown [...]

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