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Level of Indirection
Personal blog · levelofindirection.com/journalprogramming
Level of Indirection is a personal blog at levelofindirection.com about programming. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. 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
HN readers link this blog for its posts on C++ and Objective-C unit testing, including the origins of a test framework and how assertion operands are captured.
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.
'All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection ... except for the problem of too many levels of indirection'
Most-linked posts?
- /journal/2010/5/21/the-ultimate-c-unit-test-framework.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-28
What Hacker News says?
Also interesting to read, a previous blog entry from May 21, where he explains the birth of this test framework: http://www.levelofindirection.com/journal/2010/5/21/the-ulti...
Comment linking /journal/2010/5/21/the-ultimate-c-unit-test-framework.html
on “Unit Testing in C++ and Objective-C just got easier”Submitted C++17 – better than you might think as a story · 191 points
HN discussionWhat impresses me is this: The assertion macro is REQUIRE( expression ) [...] Don't worry - lhs and rhs are captured anyway - more on this later. Phil wrote a bit about this technique -- capturing the two sides of an assertion -- here: http://www.levelofindirection.com/journal/2010/5/21/the-ulti...
Comment linking /journal/2010/5/21/the-ultimate-c-unit-test-framework.html
on “Unit Testing in C++ and Objective-C just got easier”Submitted Unit Testing in C++ and Objective-C just got easier as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSubmitted Welcome to the new decade as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modern C++ Testing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted East End Functions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted TDD - is it worth it? as a story · 1 points
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