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| | henrikwarne.com

I really liked A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout. It is compact and short, only 170 pages, so it is a quick read, but it contains many good ideas. The focus is on how to structure systems to make them easy to understand and work with. The author is a professor of Computer...
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| | chelseatroy.com

I recently read John Ousterhout's book, Philosophy of Software Design. This blog post includes my commentary on some parts that stuck with me. This is neither a review nor a summary of the book.1 Instead, if you and I were in a book club and this book were the topic of our next meeting, I...
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| | jonathan-frere.com

This review is largely in response to the article "It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code", and the ensuing Reddit discussion. A lot of really interesting points were brought up, but the big question that the author themself wasn't able to answer was: "What should we recommend instead?" I believe the book we should be recommending is A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout. In this post I want to spend a bit of time reviewing it and giving an overview of the contents, and then I want to explain why, in my opinion, it is such a good recommendation.
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| | kevintechnology.com

Versatile software engineer who loves improving developer productivity.
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