Software Design for Flexibility: How to Avoid Programming Yourself into a Corner - Couverture rigide

Hanson, Chris; Sussman, Gerald Jay

 
9780262045490: Software Design for Flexibility: How to Avoid Programming Yourself into a Corner
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0262045494 ISBN 13 : 9780262045490
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2021

Synopsis

Strategies for building large systems that can be easily adapted for new situations with only minor programming modifications.

Time pressures encourage programmers to write code that works well for a narrow purpose, with no room to grow. But the best systems are evolvable; they can be adapted for new situations by adding code, rather than changing the existing code. The authors describe techniques they have found effective--over their combined 100-plus years of programming experience--that will help programmers avoid programming themselves into corners.

The authors explore ways to enhance flexibility by:

  • Organizing systems using combinators to compose mix-and-match parts, ranging from small functions to whole arithmetics, with standardized interfaces
  • Augmenting data with independent annotation layers, such as units of measurement or provenance
  • Combining independent pieces of partial information using unification or propagation
  • Separating control structure from problem domain with domain models, rule systems and pattern matching, propagation, and dependency-directed backtracking
  • Extending the programming language, using dynamically extensible evaluators

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    À propos de l?auteur

    Chris Hanson is on the technical staff at Datera.

    Gerald Jay Sussman is Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. He is the coauthor of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, and Functional Differential Equations (all published by the MIT Press).

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    Éditeur
    The MIT Press
    Date d'édition
    2021
    Langue
    anglais
    ISBN 10 
    0262045494
    ISBN 13 
    9780262045490
    Reliure
    Relié
    Nombre de pages
    448
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    Personne responsable
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