Yaron Minsky, JaneStreet, recently spoke to Olin's compiler class. I
thought I had counted ten points from his discussion of coding
techniques but as you can see below, I wrote down only 10. (Yaron was
on a plt list for a while; perhaps he can correct me)
Yaron Minsky, JaneStreet
What I like about programming with ML/Ocaml in the real world
1. Favor readers over writers. (That's readers of code; they are
always right.)
2. Open few modules, open them locally.
3. Create uniform interfaces (naming convention, main argument
convention (OO)).
4. Make illegal states unrepresentable.
5. Code for exhaustiveness (pattern matches enumerate all conditions).
6. Make common errors obvious.
member: alpha list * alpha -> alpha option
member_exn: alpha list * alpha -> alpha
7. Avoid boilerplate.
8. Avoid complex type hackery.
9. Don't be puritanical about purity.
What you can see is that almost all of these apply to programming in
PLT Scheme. Well, for 8, I will defer to Sam :-)
-- Matthias
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