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Bert Muthalaly
Personal blog · somethingdoneright.net · on HN as bertmuthalalyprogrammingscience
Bert Muthalaly writes Something Done Right, a personal blog at somethingdoneright.net about programming and science. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “When to use classes vs. when to use structs”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover the relationship between object-oriented and functional programming and the value of design patterns versus language features. The comments only mention the posts in passing and do not judge them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Bert Muthalaly's weblog
Most-linked posts?
- When to use classes vs. when to use structs5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-07-31
What Hacker News says?
I wrote about this here: http://somethingdoneright.net/2015/07/30/when-object-orienta... Comments welcome.
Comment linking /2015/07/30/when-object-orientation-works-a-rule-of-thumb.html
on “Ask HN: Relationship between OO and functional programming?”Submitted “Intro to Human Behavioral Biology” Needs Critique as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSomeone else beat me to it. Will answer anyway. Had a very similar experience to yours with one important exception. The visitor pattern is relevant for traversing ASTs in single dispatch languages. Most notably, this includes Java and C++. The alternative concept is multiple dispatch and it is way more anti-fragile. This is where the next step in college literally was to learn the concept of cargo-culting. The conc…
Comment linking /2015/07/30/when-object-orientation-works-a-rule-of-thumb.html
on “Design Patterns Are Temporary, Language Features Are Forever”Submitted When object-orientation works (a rule of thumb) (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://somethingdoneright.net
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted When to use classes vs. when to use structs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When object-orientation works (a rule of thumb) as a story · 1 points
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